Author: Ulrich Tuerke
Date: 08:45:58 01/06/99
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On January 06, 1999 at 11:32:49, Enrique Irazoqui wrote: >On January 06, 1999 at 11:12:12, Ulrich Tuerke wrote: > >> >>I think this should be fully a joke. Of course, a prog with a very small book >>will very painfully react on book preparations by the opponent (manually or >>automatically) because its replies can be predicted by playing a few games. >>I'd bet that even a very strong engine like Tiger will suffer in this case >>heavily against a strong book learner when playing a few dozen games. > >It is not happening... and you lost your bet. What was it? :) Suggestions ? > >So far Tiger has played 90 games against 9 opponents with strong and aggressive >learners, and it got away with murder (no learner, practically no book). Before >entering Tiger and when Christophe told me it had no learner, I thought it would >be massacred, but it isn't. > >Enrique > >>(However, Tiger might very well dominate a considerably weaker learner, because >>the learning won't work in case the learner can't score at all.) You are saying "it got away with murder"; so may be the above statement is true here. Uli
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