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Subject: Re: The importance of learning

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 20:46:13 01/14/04

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On January 14, 2004 at 15:59:25, Bob Durrett wrote:

>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.


That is actually a recent photo taken by my wife.  Not a very good one, but
it is better than the previous one.  At least you might recognize me if you
met me in public after seeing the current one. :)



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