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Subject: Re: And what of position learning

Author: Chessfun

Date: 07:21:49 08/26/02

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On August 26, 2002 at 10:19:11, Mogens Larsen wrote:

>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

Actually I think you're right. I just checked the files in the folder and
clearly that's what it is. However it does it better than any other program I've
ever seen. It does seem to work in transposition as I noticed a couple of the
games had got there from different move scores.

Sarah.




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