Author: Kai Lübke
Date: 01:35:47 07/22/98
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On July 21, 1998 at 23:59:28, Bruce Moreland wrote: > >On July 21, 1998 at 15:34:14, Christophe Theron wrote: > >>Disable the opening books and you get pure engine comparison. > >If you turn off the opening book you force the engine to work through a phase of >the game it has possibly not been tuned to perform well in. > >I think it generally makes more sense to test the programs as a whole. Every method has its good and bad side effects. However, you're right in the sense that most "openings" played without books looked quite bad to me - often piece development was badly neglected. Actually, MChess (which finished with 0,5/4) was the only program whose PV looked like a "book line" most of the time, like 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 etc., not the 1. d4 d5 2.e3 stuff most of the other programs produced. But it didn't help MChess much, as you could see... --- Shep
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