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Subject: Re: The Nunn Book is not necessary to test personalities

Author: Jorge Pichard

Date: 20:41:15 06/23/00

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On June 23, 2000 at 23:37:31, Jorge Pichard wrote:

>On June 23, 2000 at 23:32:16, Jorge Pichard wrote:
>
>>On June 23, 2000 at 13:28:03, David Dahlem wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>On June 23, 2000 at 11:18:33, Daniel Chancey wrote:
>>>
>>>>Your book, ~nunn.obk has only 403 book lines.  This is unacceptable to be used
>>>>in tournaments or computer vs comptuer challenges.
>>>>
>>>>Castle2000
>>>
>>>The Nunn book was created for testing personality settings only, not for
>>>strength. In my opionion, it gives more consistent results since neither side
>>>gets an advantage from the opening book.
>>>Dave
>>
>>The easier way to avoid an advantage without going thru the problems of >creating a specific book like the Nunn book, is to set an amount of games that >you are willing to test the personalities, for instance if your goal is to >only test it for 30 games, then let one personality plays 15 games with the >white pieces,then switch the personalities side of the board and replay those >15 previous opening, allowing both personalities to play 15 diferrent openings >with both sides of the board.

PS: I forgot to mentioned that the first 15 games you simply allow the program
to select whatever opening it desire to play and of course eliminate a repeated
opening in the first 15 games.
>>
>>Pichard.



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