Author: Bertil Eklund
Date: 02:25:39 10/10/99
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On October 09, 1999 at 19:00:12, José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba wrote: > I know I can also contact SSDF by e-mail; but some SSDF members read this forum >and my post can be of interest to the computer-chess community, and it might be >adopted by other testers, too. > My suggestion is to play the matches with learning programs without restoring >the original book weights for each match. I.e. if some tester has played one >match with program X on computer Z, leave whatever X has learnt for the next >match. And for the third match leave whatever X has learnt in the first two >matches, and so on. > This can be taken to the point that all the testers who are playing X on the >same hardware level share their learning files on a regular basis, if the X has >this feature. > However, I recommend to use a fresh book for the first match of X on the next >hardware level Z+1, as it is a different entry in the rating list. > The purpose is to balance the positive effects of book learning on X's score >with some negative effects produced by the same book learning which are only >apparent when playing many opponents (they do not show up when playing against a >single opponent). >José. Hallo! We never reset the book-learning between matches. Regards Bertil SSDF
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