Author: Matt Frank
Date: 11:39:16 01/29/99
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On January 29, 1999 at 14:00:02, KarinsDad wrote: >By everything, I also meant opening books and tablebases. I personally do not >feel that a program is stronger just because someone improved it's opening book. >To me, that is like saying the program is stronger because someone put it on >faster hardware. > >To do a true test of strength vs. strength, you have to have a controlled >environment and minimize only one variable, i.e. the engine. > >KarinsDad That's a peculiar statement. Do you mean to say that if we could somehow disable Kasparov's opeing theory knowledge it would be a better test of him vs. me, and our respective chess engines (i.e., brains). The way I see this you are imposing a requirement that would require enourmous dilution in all of the commercial software over the last 20 years. Matt Frank
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