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Subject: Re: Value of Book Learning ??

Author: James T. Walker

Date: 07:24:38 03/26/02

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On March 26, 2002 at 09:36:41, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:

>On March 25, 2002 at 13:35:33, James T. Walker wrote:
>
>at auto232 it is impossible to turn off booklearning in fritz.
>
>how did you turn it off? are you SURE you turned it off?

Hello Vincent,
I guess I was not very clear in my original post below.  I did not turn off any
book learning.  As you say, it's impossible with Chessbase GUI.  I simply
cleared the book learning in one computer and let the other computer learn from
1700 previous games.  The purpose was to see if the learning function from 1700
previous games helped in the match vs the computer which had no previous
learning experience.  In my 200 games the score was 103-97 with the computer
with no previous learning the winner.  So it appears there is no advantage to
book learning except to prevent one computer from finding an opponents weak
opening and playing it over and over again to get wins.  Of course this is very
important.  I was expecting the computer which had learned from 1700 previous
games to actually use this info to get a better score vs the one without any
previous learning.
JIm




>>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



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