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

Author: blass uri

Date: 12:38:08 06/24/00

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On June 24, 2000 at 14:55:13, Mogens Larsen wrote:

>On June 24, 2000 at 13:45:51, blass uri wrote:
>
>>Suppose a program does not understand the french defence with black and has a
>>book that does not allow it to get the french defence.
>>
>>If I play with it without opening book in order to test personalities I may get
>>games with the french defence.
>>
>>The results of these games are not relevant to decide which personality is best
>>in games because in practical game the program will never play the french
>>defence.
>>
>>If I want to know about the level of the personality in practical games using
>>the program's book is better.
>
>In theory exactly the same thing can happen if you use the same book for all.
>The settings might influence the way it understands certain openings.
>
>Best wishes...
>Mogens

You can use another personality with a different book for testing and in this
case you cannot use the same opening with black and white but if
you only want to test 2 personalities with the same book then I think that
the best way to test is to play the same opening from the book with black and
white.

It is possible to change the book in chessmaster and to give a different book
to another personality but I understood that the personalities that were tested
did not use a different book than the original chessmaster book.

Uri



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