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Subject: Re: observation- transposing back to opening book

Author: Mike S.

Date: 12:32:20 01/07/00

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On January 06, 2000 at 22:41:35, Ricardo Gibert wrote:

>What he means is, it will transpose back even when there *might* be something
>better. When what the program could and should calculate is actually better than
>transposing, his program prefers to transpose. He did not mean to imply that the
>book was bad. For instance, it may prefer to get back into book, rather than win
>a piece.

When the book is o.k., then there will be a reason not to win the piece. It
would make sense i.e., to avoid accepting a sacrifice which the program cannot
calculate through. If the book needs to be checked if it misses a better move,
than this has to be done before the release and corrected resp., the program
must trust it's book.
We would need examples to judge if Vincent's program had a disadvantage by
transposing back to the book I think. I'd be surprised.

Regards,
M.Scheidl



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