Author: Tom Kerrigan
Date: 22:08:40 01/13/00
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On January 13, 2000 at 23:34:38, stuart taylor wrote: >>O.K. But surely it gives a great advantage to machine, unless human spends >>his life trying to find holes in all known theory. And there are less and >>less holes left to find, and when they are found, they will be corrected >>very quickly in databases, whereas poor human has unending burdens which >>are hardley to do with chess-but a regrettable necesity-esp. for the human. >I reread your posting. I mean to say that a human (moreso than machine- >unless specially programed against it) has the disadvantage with UPDATED >opening books. Not every chess programmer is an opening theory expert. A popular thing to do is download a lot of PGN files and dump them into a database. You get a lot of theory this way, but you also get a tremendous amount of crap, too. And no matter how many lines you tweak, you still have a few thousand that are just waiting to pop up at some important tournament. =) There are people who spend their lives making opening books for commercial programs. So making opening books is actually work, and it's hard work. I don't mind losing an opening to these guys, because they have definitely paid their dues. > And by the way Tom, thanks for your answers about Athlon. Sure thing. I love processors. -Tom
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