Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 17:46:47 05/08/00
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On May 08, 2000 at 19:59:57, Mark Longridge wrote: >My crafty clone is always playing two openings when playing another >crafty with similar rating. > >As white A02 (Bird's Opening) >As black C41 (Philidor's Defense) > >It seems odd that when playing this particular opponent it ALWAYS plays >these openings, which is odd since Bird's Opening doesn't even get >a positive eval in the beginning. It does win slightly more than it >losses over a long string of games. > >Against human opponents it does not fall into this pattern. Is there >a way to get crafty to play with more variety in the opening? >It almost seems like crafty is set to study these 2 openings until it's >exhausted all the possibilities, which I really doubt. This seems to be >a general trait in any series of crafty vs. crafty games, that it >oscillates between 2 and only 2 openings. > >Mark It sounds like your book was made from a small set of games, with a lot of 1. f4 games in it to make that appear the most popular. What did you build it from?
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