Author: Lonnie Cook
Date: 19:29:42 12/08/99
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On December 08, 1999 at 22:22:00, Manuel Leone wrote: >> learning and book tuning, everyone does it! > >Do you have any evidence for this? Evidence! heehee. Yeah, I got it right here. I don't have it so I guess it doesn' t happen then, yeah right. Someone sees a certain line and every program plays one another you mean to tell me in this beautiful, paradisic world of honest , loving people no one is going to exploit it. of course they will but they will come out and admit it. The learning function is >certainly a useful feature, but developing a "killer book" >specifically to beat one or two programs in order to move up >on the SSDF rating list, is not the way chess programs should be >written. The author of Hiarcs, for example, stated that his >programs don't rely on such methods to get a high rating; they >depend on chess strength alone.
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