Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 16:14:43 02/27/06
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On February 27, 2006 at 18:25:43, Tord Romstad wrote: >On February 27, 2006 at 17:36:24, Robson V Corrêa wrote: > >>On February 27, 2006 at 16:50:19, Jouni Uski wrote: >> >>>Interestingly the best 2 engines are WITHOUT learning: Rybka + Fruit. >>> >>>Jouni >> >> >>Yes, that's the point. many top engines without a learnig fuction. It's makes me >>think about the real funcion or importance this function. > >The importance for playing strength is almost zero, I think -- at least >with the current state of the art in position learning. It can be quite neat >during interactive analysis, though. Some engines are tuned to play winning openings against a particular opponent again and again. You can imagine how it might impact (for instance) SSDF results. It clearly had a large outcome on Enrico Irazoqui's Cadaques tournament a few years back. The engine would probe different openings and when it found a winning line it would play it again and again unless/until it started to lose.
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