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Subject: Re: What actually is "Book Learning"?

Author: Will Singleton

Date: 21:06:45 07/08/04

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On July 08, 2004 at 23:07:01, Norm Pollock wrote:

>I should have made it clearer.
>
>I'm referring to running a tournament in fritz8 gui. Suppose 6 engines are all
>using the same book. And suppose book learning is checked. It does appear that
>the book is modified at the end of each game.
>
>What happened is that after a lengthy time of many engines sharing the same
>book, the engines started to have trouble getting started with the book. They
>started calculating their first move, and after that, they started to use the
>book. But they used the book for less moves than they did originally.

Interesting.  I would advise, don't do that. :)

>
>I decided therefore to give each engine its own "copy" of the original book and
>let each engine's book learn according to the likes/dislikes of that engine.

Yes, do that.



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