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Subject: Re: Different opening books?

Author: Komputer Korner

Date: 08:32:16 06/05/98

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On June 05, 1998 at 08:35:03, Harald Faber wrote:

>On June 04, 1998 at 12:09:53, Komputer Korner wrote:
>
>>>Will it be the future that programs will have (at least) 2 different
>>>opening books, one for playing other programs and one for playing
>>>humans? Both is important. Playing well against programs will give
>>>reputation in SSDF/CCL etc. but may be not as successful playing humans.
>>>So the need of another book, because I bet the "human-book" won't be OK
>>>for playing programs... right?
>>
>>Just as important is a different style against humans.
>
>Is this really necessairy or would it be enough to adjust the book?

Well if you could adjust the book all the way to the end of the game, in
other words a perfect 200 move opening book you would have solved chess.
Short of that, style is important along with king safety ....etc. Once
out of book the Genius 5 style is hard to defeat by humans whereas the
style of Fritz 5 opens itself up to positional sacs which defeat Fritz
5. Sometimes you don't even have to sac against Fritz 5, it will beat
itself trying to sac against you. However against other programs Fritz 5
will often win by outsearching them.
 Computer and human chess are very different, therefore style counts a
lot.



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