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

Author: Arturo Ochoa

Date: 08:01:32 02/19/05

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On February 19, 2005 at 10:28:52, Sune Fischer wrote:

>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.
>

It is an idiocy to accuse somebody of saying somthing. If you had read
carefully, the 10-10 was an example to show easily the result of 30%.

However, you dont read simply. That is nothing that I can do with that.

AO.



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