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Subject: Re: On clearing book learning?

Author: Daniel Clausen

Date: 06:32:51 01/14/04

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On January 14, 2004 at 09:24:06, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On January 14, 2004 at 06:36:38, Chris Taylor wrote:
>
>>Why, what are the for and against?
>>I play mainly auto232; and have quite a lot of games.  As a result, had I not
>>cleared learning, what would this mean.
>
>What will happen is that your book will dry up and go away.  You _must_ lose
>a game with nearly every opening at some point in time, and without some
>caution, >that will make that line unplayable.  And once it is unplayable,
>there is no way for it to become playable again, without your intervention.

Sounds like a not-so-clever-implementation of book learning to me. ;) Is the
traditional way for book-learning a single 'this is a bad position' flag? In
this case I can see the problem, but it doesn't seem to be a very clever
implementation to me. Or did I miss something else?

Sargon



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