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

Author: Jay Scott

Date: 10:33:06 01/06/99

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On January 06, 1999 at 11:12:12, Ulrich Tuerke wrote:

>(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.)

That's not necessarily true. If the weak learning program simply plays the
stronger program's moves against it, the weak program will eventually
learn enough to win games, provided the stronger program doesn't learn too.

This might take an extremely long time if the strong program has a varied
opening book, of course. And it might not be possible at all if the weak
program also has to learn against other opponents.

But if there's only one opponent, and the strong program is truly fixed so
that in the same position it always plays the same move, then it won't be long
before the weak program figures out how to win every game.

  Jay



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