Author: Sune Fischer
Date: 10:17:53 02/18/05
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On February 18, 2005 at 12:23:16, Arturo Ochoa wrote: >>You say 700 for the book. > >Correction: I did not say that. Vincent said it. > >I dont agree with any of the absolute assumptions: Uri's Blass or Vincent's. >The Vincent's is just the extreme contrary of the Uri's wrong point. I think Uri is right, tuning a book against a specific opponent is not time well spent in his case. There is still more potential to improve the engine, and since that is a better all-round improvement it's to prefer. >No. The engine is the core of the chess software component. If you add a tuned >book for the engine and well tested (where the engine "feels" Ok with every >resultant position after the opening)", the book evidently will help a lot the >engine. > >How much? In Diep about 30% of the games. In Zappa about 25% of the games. Yes but what is "help a lot"? -S.
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