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Subject: Re: Crafty 17-10 v Fritz 6a 60 min Nunn 1

Author: Mogens Larsen

Date: 07:10:09 04/25/00

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On April 25, 2000 at 08:25:22, blass uri wrote:

>Some programs do not know important information about simple endgames because
>the programmers assume that tablebases will help them.

Chessfun said the same and I guess that's true.

>You cannot say the same about opening books because you can get a similiar
>position that is going to be out of book so programs have to know to play
>without opening book otherwise they may have problems against opponents who try
>to get them out of book.

I think that a lot of programs will have problems making good opening moves
without a book. There was a good example from the DJ-Xie Jun match. I wonder how
a tournament without an opening book would turn out.

Best wishes...
Mogens



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