Author: Terry Ripple
Date: 07:54:24 07/01/99
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On June 30, 1999 at 19:40:50, Steve Lopez wrote:
>On June 30, 1999 at 19:15:00, Melvin S. Schwartz wrote:
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>>Would you please explain to me why one should have to "reset" the tree?
>
>Hiarcs and Fritz re-weight their opening preferences based on their prior
>success or failure in various openings. For example, if you play Hiarcs (or
>Fritz) 10 games in a certain branch of, say, the Sicilian, and it beats you all
>ten games, it will probably tend to prefer that branch over all others. This
>branch might be a *great* line to play against you (posibly due to your lack of
>familiarity with that opening), but it might be a lousy opening to play against
>another computer program or a very strong human opponent. By resetting the
>weights, you restore the tree to its default setting (making Hiarcs or Fritz
>"forget" its previous results in that line). See section 4.6 "Book options" and
>section 4.7 "Reset weights" in the Fritz5 manual.
>
>>After
>>copying the Hiarcs opening tree to the hard drive, why would it be necessary to
>>repeat the process?
>
>You don't have to repeat the process. "Reset weights" has absolutely nothing to
>do with recopying the book to the hard drive.
>
>-- Steve Lopez
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Great job Steve!!
One thing that i want to add is that the Hiarcs7.32 Opening Book can get
screwed up when people are playing computer matches!!!!!!
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Terry
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