Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 10:10:25 01/12/00
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On January 11, 2000 at 23:16:31, Jeff Anderson wrote: >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 My opinion still stands. Kasparov took DB out of book early in a couple of games. He didn't win either of them. Computers are quite capable of following opening theory with no database at all. In 1972 I was looking at an auto-played (overnight) game my program had played vs a program called "Coko". I saw 1. e4 e5 Nf3 Nc6 Bc4 Nf6 Ng5 and when I saw that Ng5 move for white, I started looking at my opening tempo stuff (this was played with no opening book at all). I had not seen the two-knights defense prior to that, and thought it was a patzer's move. Turns out to be a well-known opening. "blitz" followed MCOxx (whatever was current at the time, probably 9) for 15 moves with no problems. Anand overlooks that kind of thing...
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