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Subject: Re: A novel approach to opening books and learners

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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