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Subject: Re: Fruit 2.1 - openings book

Author: Peter Berger

Date: 05:40:57 08/26/05

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On August 26, 2005 at 08:21:53, Kurt Utzinger wrote:

>      Hi Mark
>      Who has created this book? To optimize a book for the
>      playing style of a specific engine is an extreme hard
>      job to do. Some thousand games at different time controls
>      are needed.

What makes you think so? While I agree that thousands of games at different time
controls might be a useful thing ( if someone has the time to look at all this
stuff later :)) , I don't really see the connection to optimizing a book for the
playing style of a specific engine.

I think the real problem is more to find out what kind of style a specific
engine has and what relationship this should have to a potential opening
repertoire, if any. That's nothing you can easily find out with thousands of
games IMHO, at least I don't see how the thousand games are a necessary
condition.

Actually I don't see a major difference to a human chesstrainer who helps
someone with his/her opening repertoire. As far as I know they usually don't
need 1000 of games to do that.

Peter


>I therefore very much doubt that we can speak
>      about an "optimizedd" book for Fruit. Who the hell had the
>      time to do this job?
>      Kurt



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