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Subject: Re: Crafty 17-10 v Fritz 6a Nunn 1 @ 120'/40 + 60'/20 + 30'

Author: Mogens Larsen

Date: 00:28:56 04/28/00

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On April 28, 2000 at 00:31:21, Christophe Theron wrote:

>I suggest that instead of using Nunn positions we take starting positions that
>are in the opening books of BOTH programs.

That would only be a slight improvement. How do we select the opening? We could
make them play 200 french games, but some programs might not like that opening.

>This would eliminate book randomness, book cooking, avoid the positions that a
>given program would not play, and offer reproducibility of the experiment.

Book randomness is just as good as anything else in my opinion. It also
duplicates actual playing conditions more precisely.

Best wishes...
Mogens



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