Author: Thomas Logan
Date: 19:14:09 10/20/05
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On October 20, 2005 at 22:03:47, Ryan B. wrote: >On October 20, 2005 at 21:16:11, Thomas Logan wrote: > >>On October 20, 2005 at 20:37:45, Jorge Pichard wrote: >> >>>On October 20, 2005 at 19:34:51, Thomas Logan wrote: >>> >>>Shredder learning must be better than Fruit 2.2, and after 75 games Shredder >>>should be ahead :-) >> >>Yes that is a possibility though I am not sure and tend to doubt it but >> >>How would you check it ? >> >>Other than running another match of equal duration >> >>Fruit appears to have been helped by the addition of df8.ctg to book.bin >> >>and was + 3 after the first 10 games >> >>thereafter fruit played with own book alone >> >>What I have done is put all the fruit-shredder games into chessbase clipbase >> >>and organized by eco codes >> >>I then look for duplicate openings to see if perhaps shredder was helped by a >>previous game position >> >>There was no apparent evidence that Shredder benefitted from this >> >>Perhaps this is the wrong way to test - I am unsure as to how position learning >>works and maybe it works negatively in the avoidance of a position >> >>I don't know you tell me >> >>Tom > >I think it would take a lot of games for position learning to be much factor. I agree I >cant see position learning being bad for an engine because the load into hash >would be at init so no slow down during game play and if the engine avoids a >position all together due to learning it means it could not find a good score >from any of the moves it did not play in that position last time. Book learning however could be a controlling factor especially if the opposing engine does not >have a well tuned book or is using a book not tuned for that engine. I do not >have windows so maybe someone can correct me on this but I think CB GUI handles >book learning for each engine using a CB book. If this is true than both >engines would have equal learning chances so long as the book is good for the >engine using it. I would not pick the fritz book for Fruit however due to a >much different engine play stile and see this as a disadvantage for Fruit. > >Ryan
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