Author: Fernando Villegas
Date: 15:20:18 10/12/97
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Hi Covax: I have detected the same in Crafty without book; even being a very strong program, he just does not know what a hell to do and it has lost more than once at a just expert -2100- player like me. But then, what would happens if us, human side, might play without any knowledge of opening? What, if we should think from the beginning without even the notion that the opening is so important? Even when we does not know an opening -as in my case, a lazy player in all senses- at least we know for hearsay that we must be carefull and that maybe that pawn at the reach of our pieces could be dangerous to take after all. A program without openning not only does not know what we know after a long historical experience of millions of games, but he even does not know that he should know. In fact, when we say that without the book the program lose his positional sense, what we are saying is nothing else that to say that is in the opening where the position gets his keel and so without it no positional sense could exist. So, nothing wrong with the program. If we take out of it the book, the same we would do if we coerce it to play at 5 seconds each move; we should not, after that, to be amazed if the engine does not play well at all.
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