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

Author: blass uri

Date: 07:25:46 04/25/00

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On April 25, 2000 at 10:10:09, Mogens Larsen wrote:

>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

You are right and it is one of the reasons that I expect deep Junior to have
problems against humans when they will try to get it out of book.

Uri



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