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Subject: Re: International jonathan Schroer Interested in Playing match!!

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 18:56:07 10/14/98

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On October 14, 1998 at 18:55:37, blass uri wrote:

>
>On October 14, 1998 at 18:20:23, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>On October 14, 1998 at 13:26:50, blass uri wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>On October 14, 1998 at 07:30:53, odell hall wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> If anyone is interested I.M. Jonathan Schroer expressed a desire to play a
>>>>match at 40/2hrs against any program. He told me he would be glad to take on any
>>>>computer. I asked him if he thought that he could defeat rebel, his answer was
>>>>that he doesn't know!.
>>>
>>>If rebel is a deterministic program like crafty or fritz5 it is very easy to
>>>beat it in a match.
>>>
>>>You can play 1.f3 to get rebel out of theory and after it to play good moves you
>>>learned before the match.
>>>I am not interested in a match between humans and commercial programs if the
>>>commercial programs are deterministic.
>>>
>>>Uri
>>
>>
>>Crafty is not deterministic either.
>
>I remember that you posted before some monthes that crafty needs a big book
>because it is deterministic and if it plays without a book it is going to lose
>after players learn it.
>Did you change it?
>


No...  crafty has had "position learning" for a couple of years.  It is not
as effective as book learning, where book learning helps it favor/avoid book
lines that are generally known to be reasonable.  With "position learning" it
behaves like "electric shock therapy" where it makes a non-book move, gets into
trouble a move or two or three later, and will therefore try a different move
next time.  But it might take many such attempts to find the one good move or
such...




>>  First, my opening book has several
>>*thousand* games with f3 in it.
>
>I thought that nobody plays it.
>I know that even in the powerbook of fritz5 there is no 1.f3
>
>Uri


my book comes from about 700,000 games.  And there are several f3
games in it...




>
>>  But even without that, it does some "learning"
>>along the way and will vary from game to game, without a book of any kind...
>>
>>Can't survive on a server without that..



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