Author: Harald Faber
Date: 15:17:19 06/09/98
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On June 05, 1998 at 11:32:16, 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. Yes, but how is the situation to handle that ie MCP7 has problems against other programs but is very dangerous for humans? Wouldn't it be enough to change the opening repertoire a little against other progs? So that the resulting positions when leaving the book are not double-edged, meaning that they may work against humans but not against programs.
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