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Subject: Re: The Nunn Book is not necessary to test personalities

Author: Mogens Larsen

Date: 07:56:13 06/24/00

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On June 24, 2000 at 09:13:46, blass uri wrote:

>This is the worst way to test because if you use deterministic programs you will
>get the same games again and again.
>
>You may also get wrong results because some programmers did not include some
>knowledge about opening because opening book covers this knowledge most of the
>time.

Your first objection is true, the second one isn't. Results from that kind of
experiment can't be described as wrong. The knowledge parameter has an influence
on the determination of strength during a chess game, no matter what stage of a
chess game we're talking about, so stop repeating that nonsense.

Best wishes...
Mogens



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