Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 15:53:28 02/23/99
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On February 23, 1999 at 18:47:36, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: >On February 23, 1999 at 14:53:11, Dann Corbit wrote: [snip] >>I don't think this is evidence of "cooking" -- more likely learning. Quite >>likely, they have already analyzed this position set in their database and >>therefore know the best responses for each position. >> >>Rather than indicating something underhanded, it probably just means that they >>have run extensive testing in this area. Crafty would do the same thing. If I >>ran crafty at very long time controls, it would update the learning data file >>about what to do in these situations. Is crafty cheating? Certainly not. Not >>'cooking' anything either. >> >>I don't see any evil conspiracy here. That does not mean there is nothing >>afoot. But I doubt it. > >f5.32 gets shipped with Learning files already compiled for those >positions and another few thousands for auto232 at the auto232 version, >is that what u mean? I only suspected something of that nature. But it certainly makes sense. If I were a chess program manufacturer, I would have best move entries for thousands of known difficult positions. Some of the Crafty and Covax postions turn up a lot in games, for instance.
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