Author: Ulrich Tuerke
Date: 10:18:52 05/02/02
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On May 02, 2002 at 13:04:08, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On May 02, 2002 at 12:59:54, Fernando Villegas wrote: > >>To book authors: >>As much the issue about books pirating has been debated -of course I support >>Jeroem and his colleagues-, it could be interesting for us to know more or less >>how is the work to prepare them. I confess I am one of those that never gave a >>thought to that; at most I supposed a kind of burocratic revision of current >>theory and then a copy-paste procedure. Clearly is not so, but I really would >>love to know more details. Until now only we - we, CCC family- have been curious >>about programmers of the engines and many interviews and posts has been >>published about them, but it is every day more and more clear that the book >>issue is esential and, even more, growing in importance. >>truly yours >>fernando > > >Here is what Bert Gower and I did back in the days of Cray Blitz... > >First, we manually typed in every line in MCO10 (and later MCO11 and other >opening books). So, it's alright to copy the moves from a theory book ? I must say that these discussions about book-piracy are confusing me. When I detect a hole in my book, I have used to fill it either by looking into a theory book or into the book of a commercial engine. This was quite the same in my opinion. But it seems now that the latter is piracy whereas the 1st is okay. Hmm, I'm not really convinced that this makes sense. Uli > We then played thru every line by hand, letting Cray Blitz >look at each position to see if the suggested book move was an outright >blunder that should be avoided. This took a lot of time. As we did this, >we would find moves not in MCO that appeared to be quite sound and more closely >attuned to the style of Cray Blitz so we would add these lines ourselves after >checking them out thoroughly using CB for analysis. > >Each year, after the annual computer chess event, we would go over out book >and "tune out" openings used in that event, knowing that the next year if we >played them again someone would use a pre-planned line to get us into trouble. > >In short, it was a _huge_ amount of effort. And it _never_ ends, which is the >bad part...
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