Author: blass uri
Date: 05:58:13 05/25/00
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On May 25, 2000 at 08:37:12, Mogens Larsen wrote: >On May 25, 2000 at 08:19:31, Colin Frayn wrote: > >>On May 25, 2000 at 05:03:33, blass uri wrote: >>>No >>>In the ssdf games the result is about 40% for white 30% draws and 30% for black. >> >>There's too many external factors here to make any sort of meaningful deduction. >> Remove all opening books and there might be a more interesting result... >> >>Cheers, >>Col > >Be careful about suggesting things like that Colin. I've been told many times in >this forum that playing without an opening book is a pointless exercise in >futility and that incorporating opening knowledge in a program isn't necessary. >The same goes for endgame knowledge of course. If only there was a way to avoid >or "solve" the middlegame everyone would be happy and we would have an automated >database program. Who knows, Chessbase 8.0 could eventually become the strongest >chess program. > >Sarcasm aside, I think it's a very good idea and an interesting experiment, >which derserves more attention than it's getting. Especially since it's been a >personal agenda of mine for some time :o). > >Best wishes... >Mogens I am not against the general idea of playing without the opening books. I am simply against the idea of doing it without the agreement of the programmers. I think that you should at least tell the programmers one year before you do this test in order to give them time to prepare a better version for this test. It is not fair to test a program in conditions that the programmer did not think about. Uri
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