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Subject: Re: SSDF Rating List 2005-02-25

Author: Peter Skinner

Date: 14:23:20 03/01/05

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On March 01, 2005 at 12:10:33, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>No.  Position learning is pretty "opponent-specific".  And it stored exact
>positional scores.  If I make any change in the evaluation, then those scores
>are wrong and can't be used.  SO every version change needs to delete
>position.bin at the very least...  Book learning is also based on positional
>scores, and are also opponent-specific.  If you let it go too long without
>clearing, it will eventually lose a game with most every opening, obviously, and
>flag them all as bad, when for some of the games, it wasn't the opening that was
>inferior, the opponent simply played better.

Wouldn't it be better to make the learning global instead of opponent specific?

With nearly everyone using Shredder online, it would be best to learn _those_
lines instead of just for this person or that person.

Also most titled players use the latest theory in their openings. Learning that
would as well be beneficial.

Peter



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