Author: Torstein Hall
Date: 06:10:06 01/06/06
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On January 06, 2006 at 01:39:00, Peter Skinner wrote: >On January 06, 2006 at 00:46:40, Lonnie Cook wrote: > >>I always thought learning capcity for your engine was a good thing >> >>Those with this feature:Shredder 9,HIARCS10,Nimzo,Crafty,Comet just to name a >>few >> >> >>But then why do the majority have no learning capacity? Like: >> >>Fruit 2.2.1,Rybka,Fritz,Junior,KING 3.23 to name a few. > >Well Fruit, Junior, Fritz, and The King 3.23 all having learning done by the >interface if possible. This must be a book learning, not positional learning, at least for all CB engines not having position learning built in! So Fritz can in my view not learn anything. Torstein > >The Chessbase interface and Chesspartner both do learning for the engine. > >Crafty, Comet, and Hiarcs 10 have native learning and positional learning. >Shredder is still an engine that relies on the interface to do the learning. The >engine itself does not learn. > >Some have it because the authors believe it to be beneficial, and others have >not implemented it because they think that learning over time can actually hurt >performance. > >This arguement is the same for tablebases.... it is just the way the world >works.. :) > >Peter
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