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Subject: Re: What is "learning"?

Author: GuyHaworth

Date: 02:26:25 06/25/02

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Generically, I guess 'learning' is a process enabling one to approach the 'same'
situation the next time with a different 'mindset', hopefully a better one.

As Rob Hyatt has said, the opening book mechanism needs to be a learning one
benefiting from past experience.  In the extreme, one does not want to lose the
same game twice.

Rob wrote about "Book Learning - a Methodology to Tune an Opening Book
Automatically" in the ICCA Journal, Vol. 22, No. 1 (March, 1999).


Equally, if armed with endgame tables, one could assess the competence of the
opponent from their moves and finesse one's choices of endgame moves using that
information.  Jansen wrote about this in Vols. 15 and 16 of the ICCA J ... and
I've just tabled a 'model of fallible endgame play'.


J Fu(e)rnkranz wrote about "Machine Learning in Computer Chess:  the next
generation" in ICCA J Vol. 19, No. 3 (Sept 1996) ... and his work is on the web:

http://www.ai.univie.ac.at/~juffi/lig/lig.html


Hope this helps.

g






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