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Subject: Re: Junior 9 Test (40'/40) after 300 games

Author: Harald Faber

Date: 04:40:58 01/01/05

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On December 31, 2004 at 15:21:23, Sandro Necchi wrote:

>Again I agree. Some years ago there was no learning/book learning at all and
>that was a big missing...which made a big difference with the human players.
>Now that we have them we need to improve the learning features and not to turn
>them off!


There is danger that one might test the best learner.


>>I'm getting suspicious that most of the improvements in new programs is just >some "book-up" tricks against certain programs to gain quick Elo points.  >Disabling learning will allow these "tricks" to work continiously while book >learning/learning will eventually nullify them.


This works only if one program does not learn while the opponent does.
Kurt and some others actually take care that either both have learning on or
off.


>Sandro



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