Author: Thom Perry
Date: 08:36:08 12/07/98
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On December 07, 1998 at 11:14:13, Frank Schneider wrote: >On December 07, 1998 at 10:58:36, Thom Perry wrote: > >>I'm getting ready to run the Louguet II chess test set using MCP8 on my P200-S >>with 96MEG and the directions say to disable the permanent brain. Just what >>exactly is the permanent brain? Is this the learning feature? MCP8 has two >>learning features: should I disable both during testing? Or is the permanent >>brain something else? > >Permanent brain (sometimes called pondering) is the ability of a program >to think when the opponent is to move. Usually programs implement it by >guessing the opponents next move and thinking about an answer to that move. >If the guess was right and the guessed move is played the program saved some >time and just continues it's thinking. > >When running test sets disabling learning features seems like a good idea, too. > >Frank Frank, Thanks for the info. I had seen the term "pondering" used in some previous posts and didn't know what it meant. I'll disable the brain and the learning features when I run the MCP8 tests. Thom
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