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Subject: Re: What is the Permanent Brain?

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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