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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