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Subject: Re: The importance of learning

Author: Reinhard Scharnagl

Date: 11:53:16 01/14/04

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On January 14, 2004 at 12:57:30, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On January 14, 2004 at 11:23:54, Reinhard Scharnagl wrote:

[...]
>>Of course, but you still should try to learn by avoiding errors.

>I believe that is what reasonable book learning does...

To avoid errors, they have to be identified and localized, not always associated
to the last played opening move (only such behavior has been targeted by me).

The criticized approach on always directly modifying opening books, which only
has been targeted by me, will work the better the worser an implemented opening
book would be, because the probability will increase, that an existing fault is
localized therein. Claiming such a method to be very effective within a chess
program seems not to be a compliment for the used library.

>You might visit my web site, which now has links to a half-dozen papers I
>have written including the one on book-learning...  it explains what I do,
>at least, and how effective it can be.
>
>[www.cis.uab.edu/info/faculty/hyatt.html] if I recalled that correctly.

Well, it might be that I am not allowed to see that page (the path is existing),
but it will not be displayed.

Thank you, Reinhard.



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