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Subject: Re: Opening Books

Author: Pete Galati

Date: 12:40:02 03/13/00

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On March 13, 2000 at 15:10:53, Steve Coladonato wrote:

>Apparently one of the Xie Jun vs DJ games was played with DJ having no access to
>an opening book.  Since most, if not all, computer chess programs use an opening
>book, developed by humans, what would be an estimate for how long it would take
>a chess engine to develop a reasonable opening book from scratch?  I guess that
>would be like taking away the opening book and turning learning on.
>
>Steve

A program probably would not develope a very diverse opening book if done
completely on it own.  If left to it's own calculations, it will probably always
answer P-K4 with P-K4.

I'm only guessing because I have not tried it, but if you were to pit TSCP
against TSCP in a Winboard match, you would probably end up with several
completely identical games.  Learning would slightly alter that.

Do you have a pgn of the game where  DJ didn't have a book?

Pete



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