Author: Terry Ripple
Date: 10:26:55 11/19/00
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On November 19, 2000 at 11:54:56, Tor Forl wrote:
>
>Hi everybody
>
>I have gandalf 4.32f playing on a chesserver. I do not have a super-pc(266MMX,
>48mb ram).. But I encountered a strange thing. I have learning set to 1. Below
>are two games against the same person. In the first game gandalf came bad out of
>the opening(-1.00) and was under lot of pressure.. The human made a mistake and
>resigned.. But the funny thing was that gandalf used the excact line as its
>openingbook in the next black-game, even it came worse out the first game, and
>eventually resigned.. I though that setting learning on would make the engine
>better and not jump into a bad opening, and not base the openinglearning on the
>outcome of earlier games(1-0, 1/2-1/2, 0-1)???
>
>Game1 Human(2290) - Gandalf 4.32f(2790)
>
>1. e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. exd5 cxd5 4. Bd3 Nc6 5. c3 g6 6. Nf3 Nh6 7. O-O Bf5 8.
>Bf4 e6 9. Na3 Bxa3 10. Bxh6 Bxb2 11. Rb1 Bxc3 12. Rxb7 Bxd3 13. Qxd3 Qc8
>14. Rfb1 Ba5 15. Ng5 Bc7 16. Qb5 Qd7 17. Rc1 Rb8 18. Qxc6 Rxb7 19. Qxb7
>Bxh2+ 20. Kxh2 Qxb7 21. Nf3 Ke7
>{White resigns} 0-1
>
>Game2 Human(2290) - Gandalf 4.32f(2790)
>
>1. e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. exd5 cxd5 4. Bd3 Nc6 5. c3 g6 6. Nf3 Nh6 7. O-O Bf5 8.
>Bf4 e6 9. Na3 Bxa3 10. Bxh6 Bxb2 11. Rb1 Bxc3 12. Rxb7 Bxd3 13. Qxd3 Qc8
>14. Rfb1 Ba5 15. Ng5 Bc7 16. Qf3 Qd7 17. Qf6 Rg8 18. Nxh7 Qd6 19. g3 Rc8
>20. Ng5 Qe7 21. Nh7 Qd6 22. Bf4 Qd8 23. Bxc7 Rxc7 24. Qf4 Rxb7 25. Rxb7 f5
>26. Ng5 e5 27. dxe5 Qa5 28. e6 Rh8 29. Rb8+ Nxb8 30. Qxb8+ Qd8 31. Qxd8+
>Kxd8 32. Nf7+ Ke7 33. Nxh8 g5 34. Nf7 g4 35. Ng5 a5 36. Kf1 Kf6 37. Ke2 d4
>38. Kd3 Ke7 39. Kxd4 Kf6 40. Kc5
>{Black resigns} 1-0
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The same thing happens when i have book learning on with my Hiarcs732! Only when
it loses with that opening line will it not use that same line again.
Regards,Terry
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