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Subject: Re: The importance of opening books -- a simple experiment

Author: Sune Fischer

Date: 00:56:57 02/19/05

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On February 19, 2005 at 03:41:05, Sune Fischer wrote:

>On February 18, 2005 at 18:52:58, Arturo Ochoa wrote:
>
>>These assumptions are absolutely wrong. It is a common problem in this Forum of
>>asserting things that I have not said.
>>
>>"Look the answer: 30% of the total score reached by Diep in testings and 25% of
>>the total score reached by Zappa in private tests. The books was responsible of
>>30% and 25% of the score reached for every mentioned engine.
>>I'm not quite sure what that means actually."
>>
>>Example: If Diep played 10 games, and it won 10 games, 3 games were because of
>>the book. Do you understand? A direct win because of the book.
>
>I'm just explaining that you can't translate that to an Elo number without
>knowing how many games there were in total.

Correction, it's not the number of games that's important, it's the percentage.

Let's assume you played equal opponents so the score went from 45% to 65%.

This would give about 140 Elo.

-S.



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