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Subject: Re: Does a chess computer really learn?

Author: Matthew White

Date: 18:10:51 05/07/03

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On May 06, 2003 at 15:36:01, Mike S. wrote:

>On May 06, 2003 at 08:32:35, emerson tan wrote:
>It's astonishing how effective the *position learning* can be: I've just run
>some long matches - up to 60 games! - with 2 engines each, from the *same
>opening variant* each, same conditions for each game (alternate colors). You'd
>think this will give many doubles. But it turned out that every game was
>different! Most often, the alteration came relatively early, not just somewhere
>at the end of the game.

This makes the assumption that the only cause of variance in a game is
positional learning. In many positions, hashing differences, time management
algorithms, or even gnomes :) could effect the move played.

Matt



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