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Subject: Re: Unauthorized use of Rebel books

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 08:10:38 05/02/02

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On May 02, 2002 at 09:12:29, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:

>On May 02, 2002 at 09:08:58, Ulrich Tuerke wrote:
>
>>>As for learning, I understand the learning code in the Fritz
>>>GUI's is that of Robert Hyatt.
>>
>>I doubt this very much. The learning algos, used by ChessBase are much more
>>aggressive than Robert's. If a CB engine had a win, it immediately tries to
>>duplicate the game, whereas Crafty just tries to avoid loosing lines.
>
>It's a matter of parameters. You can configure them in the CB GUI.
>
>Crafty does try to repeat games, just not as aggressively with
>the default settings. The info that Fritz uses the Crafty learning
>algo comes from Robert himself, and I see little reason to doubt it's true.
>
>--
>GCP

It is legal to use the algorithms otherwise it is going to be also illegal to
use the alpha beta algorithm for exactly the same reason(another programmer
already use it in another program).

Uri



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