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Subject: Re: Hiarcs v Fritz opening books

Author: Melvin S. Schwartz

Date: 12:23:34 07/01/99

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On July 01, 1999 at 10:54:24, Terry Ripple wrote:

>On June 30, 1999 at 19:40:50, Steve Lopez wrote:
>
>>On June 30, 1999 at 19:15:00, Melvin S. Schwartz wrote:
>>
>>
>>>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
>------
>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!!!!!!
>------
>Terry

Hello Terry,

What's the great job?
I did not play Hiarcs against a computer, engine, airplane, or whatever - I
played Hiarcs against myself!!!

Mel



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