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Subject: Re: Another Way to Make Comparisons of Engines More Accurate

Author: Serge Desmarais

Date: 13:36:29 08/28/98

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On August 28, 1998 at 12:55:57, Robert Henry Durrett wrote:

>Why not obtain, and create a library of, the opening books of all of the current
>chess engines [maybe others not so current too - maybe] and test all engines
>with all of the books?
>
>This may be too big a project, so may not be practical for that reason alone.
>
>The thought behind this suggestion is that such a testing program would point
>out any dependences on books as well as to make comparisons of the "engines
>without their books" more informative relative to the true inherent strengths
>and weaknesses of the engines. It might also point out highly specific needs for
>improvements in some of the engines.


   You are assuming that the opening books are a kind of "cover up" of their
respective program's weaknesses, if I understand you well?

Serge Desmarais



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