Author: blass uri
Date: 20:54:41 04/15/00
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On April 15, 2000 at 20:19:43, Mike S. wrote: >On April 15, 2000 at 12:13:23, blass uri wrote: > >>On April 15, 2000 at 10:50:07, Mike S. wrote: >> >>>Maybe it would be best, if computer chess developers and publishers would let >>>create a small, high quality, standard opening book to be used for such >>>tournament and comparison purposes by every program. (...) >> >>You do not have to ask programmers about it. > >Yes, what I meant was, it would be good if all the programmers etc. could >cooperate to have such a "standard" opening book developed. They could hire >opening experts to create such a book, which would really be theory and not just >80% database material. But it's unlikely that all the companies would ever agree >about such an idea. Some will think they loose an advantage, some will be afraid >that the book will be manipulated, and others just won't be interested. > >I know that everyone can create a book for nearly all the programs, but unless >there's one standard book which is used always, you will have results from >different books again. You can't avoid this effect just by changing colors. We >will never know which program is strongest among the top programs, as long as >there are many of them in a seemingly *narrow margin* of strength. > >Regards, >M.Scheidl You can use always positions from a tournament of GM's after the programs were released so they cannot prepare for these positions because they cannot know what the GM's planned to play. I do not see the difference in the results between nunn match based on these positions and creating a new opening book by all the programmers. Uri
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