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Subject: Re: Don't play matches under Arena

Author: Peter Fendrich

Date: 05:23:04 04/23/02

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On April 23, 2002 at 08:03:09, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:

>On April 23, 2002 at 07:48:16, Peter Fendrich wrote:
>
>>Arena has a resign feature but you don't have to use it.
>
>It should not be used unless
>
>a) the engine can do full learning without reaching the end of the
>game. Most (including Sjeng and Crafty) cannot.

Terra also needs to reach the end but if IIRC Arena sends the 'result 0-1'
command to the engine and then the learning is started. When is the learning
started in Sjeng?

>b) the interface can do the learning for the engine (how can you
>know this, if you don't know how the engine learns?)
>
>Obviously, I do not like this feature :-/
No, I'm not so found of it either. It's the engines choice to resign or not.
>--
>GCP





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