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Subject: Re: Why do some engines have learning capacity and others none?

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 08:25:58 01/06/06

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On January 06, 2006 at 10:42:43, Peter Skinner wrote:

>On January 06, 2006 at 09:10:06, Torstein Hall wrote:
>
>>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
>
>Technically anything that runs in the Chessbase interface has positional
>learning.
>
>It is just some engines have it internally, and some the interface does it for
>it. Obviously one is better than the other, but both "have it".
>
>Peter


I'm not sure how that would work.  Positional learning is normally a product of
fiddling with hash table entries.  I don't believe the GUI can do this.  In
fact, it probably doesn't even know where the hash table sits in memory, much
less how to make sensible adjustments to certain entries...

• Re: Why do some engines have learning capacity and others none? Peter Skinner 09:49:14 01/06/06
  • Re: Why do some engines have learning capacity and others none? Uri Blass 11:22:02 01/06/06
    • Re: Why do some engines have learning capacity and others none? Peter Skinner 13:32:59 01/06/06
      • Re: Why do some engines have learning capacity and others none? Robert Hyatt 14:56:44 01/06/06
  • Re: It controls the HT.SIZE setting but not the tables themselves (n.t.) Austin A. Biberink 10:25:04 01/06/06

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