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Subject: Re: Achieving 1 ELO error Margin

Author: pavel

Date: 10:16:10 04/14/05

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On April 14, 2005 at 13:09:34, Dieter Buerssner wrote:

>On April 14, 2005 at 12:30:15, pavel wrote:
>
>>One thing about YACE learning feature that I dislike is that it doesn't
>>overwrite the same position when importing it.
>
>It practically does, although it still needs the space in the positional
>learning file. (Book learning is different, in this regards, and the "space" -
>if any, is only used once).
>
>>For instance my YACE learnpos.bin has "28169" positions. But all of them are not
>>unique position. If I try to import 30 positions from learnpos.yac 5 times it
>>will add 150 new positions, so it will add the same positions 5 times. I don't
>>know if it does the same thing during a game.
>
>It will do the same.
>
>>If it learns from a position it
>>reached and learned before, does it overwrite it with a new score or update it
>>with a new score?
>
>Only the last instance will count. So - besides the wasted space on disk - it is
>the same as if the instances would be overwritten. It actually overwrites them,
>when it loads the positions into RAM.
>
>Regards,
>Dieter


Thanks Dieter.
So the number 28169 are not unique positions?
Will it be posible to "fix" it in future versions?

Cheers,
pavs



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