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

Author: Sune Fischer

Date: 07:28:52 02/19/05

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On February 19, 2005 at 09:53:31, Arturo Ochoa wrote:

>On February 19, 2005 at 03:56:57, Sune Fischer wrote:
>
>>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.
>
>
>I repeated twice my explanation, if you dont understand it. It is not my
>problem.

You don't want to tell me your results that's fine, but I hope you realize that
claiming 10 of 10 is nonsense.

-S.
>AO.



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