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Subject: Re: Play without books. A good idea ?

Author: William H Rogers

Date: 07:00:06 01/13/99

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On January 13, 1999 at 04:24:30, Marc-Philippe HUGET wrote:

>Hi everybody,
>
>	In this moment, I test my program without books, I think it is a good meaning
>in order to test quality of evaluation : pwan development, pieces development,
>etc. Are you agree with me ?
>	For example, Crafty often begins with Knight Nf3 or Nf6 or Nc6.
>
>	This idea is very strange, isn't it ?
>
>	Opinion ?
>
>
>Marc-Philippe Huget

I think that it is a great idea!
The main thing a chess program is designed to do is play good chess. Once you
have accieved that, you can add book moves, although, I would like to see limits
to the depths that a program can play in a tourneyment, such as 10 moves.
Why only 10 moves, because after that point you are no longer in openings but it
the main program itself.
Bill



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