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Subject: Re: Tournament update

Author: Tord Romstad

Date: 10:47:33 01/11/99

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On January 11, 1999 at 12:08:56, Enrique Irazoqui wrote:

>On January 11, 1999 at 11:30:07, Jeroen Noomen wrote:
>>Hello Enrique,
>>
>>Do you have any explanation for the poor results of Genius 6?
>
>Hi Jeroen,
>
>The engine doesn't seem to have been improved and in Genius 6 it runs quite a
>bit slower than Genius 5 DOS. I am very disappointed too.

Also, the opening book in Genius 6 is unfortunately very bad.  The book seems
to have been built automatically from a huge game database, without any
specific tuning.  The book includes moves which have been played only in
one single game.  Including only moves which have been played in at least
three games between good players (like in Crafty's book, for instance) greatly
improves the quality of the opening book.  Genius 6 allows the user to
build opening books from game databases, but unfortunately it lacks the
extremely important feature to exclude moves which have been played only
a few number of times...   :-(

Tord



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