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Subject: Re: SSDF(Crafty 17.07 - SOS)AMD K6-2 450, 1-5.

Author: Aaron Tay

Date: 04:10:19 08/20/00

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On August 20, 2000 at 07:07:23, Uri Blass wrote:

>>>if it is so then anyone can come with a "good" opening book and run all >programs with that particular book. Why do they bother to make differant books >for differant chess programs? really!! why?

>>You are talking about fitting the program style with the opening book. True >>to a extent I guess, but I suspect, most amuteur opening books not checked by >>experts have some fairly big blunders that are bad objectively.

>>That is where the commerical books are superior in the avoiding of such >>errors.

>I am not sure about it because I saw cases when commercial programs lost games
>because of bad book lines(I do not know if it happens more often pr less often
>with crafty's opening bookin ICC).

I don't know either of course, but it seems to be quite a good guess that
commerical books have less errors than auto-generated ones..Someone if
sufficently dedicated could try to find out of course..by collecting stats ..




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