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Subject: Re: The importance of learning

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 12:33:28 01/14/04

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On January 14, 2004 at 14:53:16, Reinhard Scharnagl wrote:

>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.


www.cis.uab.edu/info/faculty/hyatt/hyatt.html

I left out one "hyatt"...




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