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Subject: Re: SSDF. Gandalfs LEARNING is destoyed when aborting!!

Author: Enrique Irazoqui

Date: 13:53:05 10/18/00

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On October 18, 2000 at 14:49:09, Bertil Eklund wrote:

>On October 18, 2000 at 14:09:00, Mike S. wrote:
>
>>This kind of problem could have been avoided since the start of the list, if
>>they would have done it like this (like I wrote once or twice here too):
>>
>>1. switch off all (permanent) learning
>>2. remove all doubles (!!) from the results
>>
>>By this, they would test "out of the box" versions. What's the use of testing
>>software with (an increasing mass of) individual learning data, which any other
>>user *does not have*? Sooner or later, they are testing something completely
>>different from the software one can buy.
>>
>>But they *just won't do it*. Chaos continues.
>>
>>Regards,
>>M.Scheidl
>Hi!
>
>You can't be serious?! Do you mean we should accept opening books like Mchess6
>that' always (90%)of the games plays 1.e4-e5 2.Bc4. If the other program favors
>1.-e5 it's almost impossible to play more than one game.
>
>Or Rebel8 that always played the same slave line against 1.c4 -c6
>If we had accepted that we shouldn't see the great books of today from Noomen
>and Kure.
>
>I remember an old tournament of Enrique (stand-alone computers).He played 20
>game matches with the different programs, except with one program where it was
>impossible to play more than 4 rounds because of the limited opening-book.

It was quite frustrating. Wasn't it Conchess the guilty machine?

18 years ago... Good memory, Bertil.

Enrique

>Bertil



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