Author: Jeff Anderson
Date: 20:16:31 01/11/00
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On January 11, 2000 at 22:57:58, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >I would agree. Anand is a good guy, but he doesn't know diddley about >computers. Opening book does _not_ slow the program down. I have no idea >where he got that. Probably based on the idea that if a human used a book, >he would do a lot of page flipping and stuff.. I don't believe he is saying that removing the opening book would speed up the calculating, but that if the database were removed but the machine was 10x faster, Anand could beat it easily, not that this would actually happen if the opening book was removed. Jeff
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