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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