Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 11:50:40 04/27/00
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On April 27, 2000 at 08:50:02, Mogens Larsen wrote: >On April 27, 2000 at 07:42:12, Robert Hyatt wrote: > > >>This discussion has happened before. The idea has its plusses and minuses. >> >>The main plus is that it eliminates 'cooking a book'. >> >>The main minus is that even if a program would _never_ play a particular >>opening in real games, because (perhaps) it isn't well-tuned for some types >>of pawn structures, it still has to play the position in this particular >>game. Humans don't play like that.. IE I won't play the french as black >>because I don't like the cramped position. I won't play the Colle-type >>positions for the same reason. Ditto closed sicilian as white. > >My point exactly. I've seen enough computer chess programs to believe that the >chess knowledge of a program should be reflected in its opening book, ie. open >vs. cramped positions. > >>It is an interesting test, maybe, although I have never looked at the positions >>to see what they look like, but it really doesn't say much about how real games >>will be played, since _everybody_ gets to pick their own openings in real games. > >Neither have I, but it's entirely unrelated to OTB chess IMHO. > >Best wishes... >Mogens It isn't horrible.. It is just the opposite extreme. On one end, you have cooked books and killer books. On the other end you have pre-determined start positions. OTB is somewhere in the middle...
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