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

Author: Arturo Ochoa

Date: 06:52:36 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.
>
>If you play a total of 10 games and score 7 without book and 10 with book, your
>score has improved from 70% to 100%(!!) which is a huge improvement (800 Elo).
>
>If you improved from 7% to 10% its a much smaller improvement (70 Elo).

Really useless to explain again. I wont repeat what you cant understand.

Sorry-.

>
>>AO--
>>
>>
>>I have not pointed out anything about any elo relation.
>
>Well that is the big question :)
>
>-S.



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