Author: Rajen Gupta
Date: 15:09:34 01/29/99
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I entirely agree with KarinsDad and disagree with Matt.A Programme's opening book has nothing to do with its playing strength.Its almost like knowing the exam questions beforhand and preparing for them. Book knowledge consists of lines that have been prepared by some one else and fed into a programmes dattabase.Given enuogh resources one could theoretically (by feeding millions of won games as opening lines)make even chessmaster 3000 appear strong. Rajen Gupta On January 29, 1999 at 14:39:16, Matt Frank wrote: >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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