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Subject: Re: The mistake in the ssdf list

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 09:32:26 10/03/98

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On October 03, 1998 at 04:09:23, blass uri wrote:

>In the ssdf list a program are playing long matches and I do not like it because
>it gives an advantage to programs that are strong in learning a specific
>opponent
>
>I suspect that fritz5 is a program that is strong in learning a specific
>opponent
>
>I am not against learning but I think that it is better not to play against the
>same oponent again and again.
>
>It is better for example that fritz5 will play the first game against Genius5,
>the second game against Mchesspro7, the third game against Nimzo98...
>
>If it has not enough opponents and have to play against the same opponent many
>times then at least it should play against other opponents before it plays
>a game against the same opponent.
>
>Uri



this won't change a thing.  After twenty games against each, whether the
games are played consecutively or alternating opponents, the learning will
be exactly the same, on a per-opponent basis...  What you would see is
that fritz would have a lower score for the first half of the games, still,
and it would have a better score for the second half as the learning takes
effect.  But intermixing opponents won't change a thing...



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