Author: James T. Walker
Date: 13:38:08 03/25/02
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On March 25, 2002 at 15:19:27, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On March 25, 2002 at 13:35:33, James T. Walker wrote: > >>I just did a quick test to see if there is any gain through book learning. I >>loaded One computer with Fritz 7 and let it learn from the 3 databases I have >>(more than 1700 games played by Fritz 7. In the other computer (both AMD 1.4G) >>I cleared the book learning in Fritz 7 and played 100 games at G/1 minute (for >>quick results of course). The final score: Fritz without previous book >>learning won by 52-48. >>Comments?/Conclusions?/Insults? >>Jim > > >Not enough games. The "learner" simply learns to not use bad >openings. It has to try them before it can learn to not play >them, however... > >game in 1 minute is very weak learning. Fritz uses my "LearnFunction" >which scales the learning back very significantly for such short searches, >because they are not dependable.. Hello Bob, Yes I agree not enough games. But the idea of the test was to see if the learning from 1700 previous games would have any effect on it's play now. Not to see if learning in 100 games would help. As other post point out it at least does stop from repeating losses in matches due to the same opening. Jim
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