Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 09:45:00 01/14/04
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On January 14, 2004 at 09:32:51, Daniel Clausen wrote: >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 Most programs (Crafty included) tend to do both. Crafty learns something after it is out of book for 10 moves and gets a feel for whether it is happy or not. But once it loses, assuming "result learning" is enabled, it simply will not play that book line again... This is very good for matches obviously. :)
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