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Subject: Re: The importance of learning

Author: Reinhard Scharnagl

Date: 07:19:03 01/14/04

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On January 14, 2004 at 07:52:19, Uri Blass wrote:

>I think that learning can be very effective.
>
>An engine that does not learn may lose the same games again and again after
>enough games.
>
>I use learning for matches of 4 games that are popular in Leo's tournament and
>my learning is simply to choose a different first move after a loss.

Is this real 'learning', or an escaping into a not yet refuted randomizing?

>With my very small manually edited book(only few hundreds of positions) there
>are big chances that movei will lose the same game twice if I do not do it.
>
>For testing I prefer to use the nunn2 match and test suites.

Nevertheless that behaviour really may produce success, it is not what I would
call learning. But you are not alone using the word 'learning' that way.

Before claiming something being able to learn, please specify, what is learning.
I still cannot do this sufficiently.

Regards, Reinhard.



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