Author: Steve Coladonato
Date: 05:41:58 03/14/00
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On March 13, 2000 at 15:40:02, Pete Galati wrote: >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? There was another post that indicated that game 2 was played without an opening book. However the PGN is not available. Steve > >Pete
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