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Subject: Re: And what of position learning

Author: Mogens Larsen

Date: 07:19:11 08/26/02

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On August 26, 2002 at 10:09:30, Chessfun wrote:

>
>You can talk about books and book learning but position learning can be just as
>extreme. In my lightning matches Gandalf_432h won 13 games out of a total played
>40 with the same book line that once it scored the first win it's position
>learning took over. This was against Fritz7.ctg, Deep Fritz 7 scores the
>position out of book as positive for black by 1/2 a point after a 2 min search,
>Gandalf had white. It also just took 6 also from Deep Fritz 7 using the same
>method, different opening.....position learning.
>
>Had it discovered this line in game 1 it would likely have taken 20 wins against
>any Fritz 7 version same goes for Gandalf 5.1.

The Gandalf method is better described as booklearning/book extension rather
than position learning, because it's repetition of a certain line and not a
position hit. I'm not sure it works if you transpose into that line, but I'm not
certain.

Regards,
Mogens



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