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Subject: Re: The End of the Learning Debate

Author: Simon Read

Date: 05:12:53 03/23/98

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On March 22, 2098 at 16:49:36:93:54:124:79:2:11347:55a, Robert Hyatt
will
write, among other things:

> First, you can cull
> moves that were only played once or twice, as those are nothing but
> moves from a single game and are not worth considering without a search
> to verify them.  I use the "minplay" option set to 3 when I build a book
> for Crafty, meaning that in the 330,000 game file I use, if a move was
> not played at least 3 times, it is tossed out.

What about positions? If there's a transposition, a position may be
reached by different routes, so the move immediately before it might
only have been made once, but the resulting position may have occurred
several times.

This might mean that you throw away a position which has occurred
more than three times because there are 2 ways of getting there,
each of which has been used twice.

Regards
Simon



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