Author: Mogens Larsen
Date: 17:54:59 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)??? It's a combination of booklearning only and "remembering" a winning line/game. There are advantages and disadvantages with an approach like that. The human player knew that the opening line was good enough and repeated it. A computer opponent probably wouldn't depending on the program. Mogens.
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