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Subject: Re: about Learning function.

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 16:34:44 02/27/06

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On February 27, 2006 at 19:24:21, Tord Romstad wrote:

>On February 27, 2006 at 19:14:43, Dann Corbit wrote:
>
>>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.
>
>OK, no argument there.  I thought we were talking about position
>learning, not book learning.

Position learning can have similar importance if our book is small and the
positions learned are near the origin.  Obviously, if it is some esoteric
position like WAC.230, the odds of hitting it are essentially 0.  But if the
move is 1. b4 it becomes far more probable.  And so position learning can take a
role like book learning in that instance.



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