Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 23:50:56 02/04/02
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On February 05, 2002 at 02:39:09, Jouni Uski wrote: >Last weekend I tested positional learning under Fritz7. I played 3 engines from >10 Nunn opening positions against Fritz7. I repeated this 4 times and checked >their score. Result: no gain in score in any engine! Yes I checked, that lrn >files get bigger and bigger after each match. Book learning was disabled = >definitely Fritz wasn't learning. Seems, that this learning stuff is only waste >of time. But I played with 60/15 time limit and ponder off - may be >this explains my result?! > >Jouni > >PS. tested engines were Shredder5.32, Goliath Light1.5 and Yace 0.99.56 Imagine if both engines learn... Engine 'A' says, "Here is where I went off last time..." Engine 'B' says, "There is where I went off last time..." Why would you expect either 'A' or 'B' to do better against the other. There are an awful lot of possible routes from a given starting position. Let them play 1,000 games with learning on and I suspect you will see a significant difference. Against identical programs that cannot see the learn files, that is.
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