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Subject: Re: The importance of learning

Author: Bob Durrett

Date: 12:59:25 01/14/04

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On January 14, 2004 at 15:33:28, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>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"...

There is something seriously wrong with the photograph on that webpage.  That
couldn't be the fire-breathing Hyatt dragon I had been imagining.  : )

Bob D.



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