Author: Reinhard Scharnagl
Date: 12:35:24 01/26/04
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On January 26, 2004 at 10:49:02, Jorge Pichard wrote: >Since the Opening is NOT that important in FRC and HIARCS is leading, the >positional understanding of HIARCS is much higher than the rest. There is clear >indication that with a better opening book, HIARCS could be the leader in SSDF >as well. Well, I have to state something: a) in conventional chess engines opening-LIBRARIES are important, because the engine intelligence will be ignored during the opening. Therefore progresses in engines' handling of openings hardly would happen. b) in Fischer Random Chess OPENINGS are very important, because the engines are forced to think over very new situations (960 possible starting positions). The existing or missing quality of their detail evaluation functions will become obvious. FRC is a fine drosophila to test evaluation functions and engines, where traditional engines will not be trusted during the phase of opening. This is a bad situation not acceptable to me. So I prefer FRC engines - not a surprise. See also [http://www.rescon.de/Compu/fullchess1_e.html] (ten pages ...) Regards, Reinhard.
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