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Subject: Re: Just learning capability?

Author: David Paulowich

Date: 13:00:07 06/14/00

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On June 12, 2000 at 16:35:38, Pete Galati wrote:
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>For a long time I was making opening books using only games played by computer
>programs, and admitedly they would have borrowed book lines from thos programs,
>but when all was said and done, they were genuinly crappy opening books.  Now if
>I'm making an opning book for a program, I take a 180 degree oposite approach,
>and remove all program games from the database before I compile the book.  I
>still throw out all games that are draws though, but that might be a mistake.
>
>Pete

Draws in the EXTREME CHESS 50,000 game database are all 60 moves or longer.
We can reasonably assume that at least one player saw winning chances.
You could experiment with throwing out all draws up to 119 ply.

     - David



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