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Subject: Re: Why wont Shredder 8 remember its analysis in Infinite Analysis mode?

Author: Stefan Meyer-Kahlen

Date: 08:34:09 04/21/04

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On April 21, 2004 at 09:49:31, William Penn wrote:

>
>I'm not sure if I made myself clear in my original post. I'm talking about...
>
>(1) For the sake of an example, let's say it is white's turn to move initially
>in a game in progress which has been saved to disk.
>(2) So the game is loaded from disk, and Shredder is set to calculate for a long
>time (overnight) to try to find white's best move. I have always used Infinite
>Analysis mode for this process.
>(3) Then I press the spacebar, and Shredder makes the best move it found on the
>chessboard.
>(4) Now it is black's turn to move, and ideally Shredder should retain the
>analysis obtained when white's move was calculated. It should not have to start
>a calculation from "ground zero" again (at the beginning, with no knowledge). If
>it must start at ground zero again, this is highly (absurdly) inefficient.



Yes, doing this would be stupid. This is why Shredder is not doing this.

Stefan




>So that's what I'm talking about.
>
>I'm not talking about "positional learning" such as is stored in the
>shredder.plr file for openings, etc. I'm talking about retention of prior
>analysis to be used in making the next successive move(s) in the game. Perhaps
>it all can't be retained, but most of it should be retained.
>
>Partly the reason for this is that we know Shredder's displayed analysis cannot
>be trusted beyond the first move. So it must be iterated move by move in manual
>fashion, if we want to find the true best line!?
>WP



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