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Subject: Re: Opening Books

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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