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Subject: Re: Learn from database option

Author: Henrik Dinesen

Date: 04:31:44 08/28/05

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On August 27, 2005 at 17:19:17, Thomas Logan wrote:

>On August 27, 2005 at 14:40:14, Norm Pollock wrote:
>
>>On August 27, 2005 at 13:19:30, Thomas Logan wrote:
>>
>>>Under edit opening book in chessbase gui is an option to learn from database
>>>
>>>Can someone give me some information on this ?
>>>
>>>Does it permently rewrite the opening book ?
>>>
>>>Any experience with this ?
>>>
>>>Tom
>>
>>I fooled around with this awhile ago. I'm not sure how it works. This is just a
>>wild guess.
>>
>>An opening book consists of a tree of positions together with statistics about
>>frequency of occurrence and wins/draws/losses. When you import a pgn file for
>>example, you get the positions AND the stats for each position put into your
>>book.
>>
>>But suppose you only want the stats without any additional positions put in.
>>Then you would use the "learn" feature. Example of use.
>>
>>Suppose you import a pgn file to make a book. And suppose you have a second pgn
>>file that includes additional positions that you do NOT want to put into book,
>>yet you want the stats in the 2nd pgn file that relate to the positions that
>>occurred in the 1st pgn file. So you "learn" from the 2nd pgn file.
>>
>>Example: You have a pgn file based on games of players 2600+ played during
>>2004-5. And suppose you want to add stats to those positions based on the play
>>of Fischer. So you could "learn" from a pgn of Fischer games, you but have to
>>separate into a white pgn and a black pgn first and "learn" from each so that
>>you only get the stats from Fischer's moves.
>
>Hi Norm
>
>Thanks for the explaination
>
>Tom


That was what Alex Schmidt with the Fruit book, made the book learn from Fruit
games.

Henrik



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