Author: blass uri
Date: 10:18:25 07/07/00
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On July 06, 2000 at 23:44:40, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: >On July 06, 2000 at 21:27:00, Dann Corbit wrote: > >>On July 06, 2000 at 19:41:31, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: >> >>>Hello, >>> >>>this is a post i just did at crafty list after a long number of mails about >>>a project called CAP which people tend to believe they can use it for >>>creating their openingsbook. Some warnings are on their place, when you >>>want to let such a book compete with commercial books. >>> >>>I first showed that CAP goes completely wrong already quite soon in opening. >>>Like 1.d4,d5 2.c4,e5 3.dxe5 there best move is d4 all other moves you can >>>go home and rest but first resign the game. >> >>And (as I showed in the Crafty mailing list) CAP supports this choice. > >quote from your email: > > >------ >> >> 1.d4,d5 2.c4,e5 3.dxe5 then what does your CAP play? > >dxc4 >------ > >You answered dxc4 > >BEEP >wrong answer. > >Now you say suddenly it does play d4. >However you are faced with a big problem here. > >Program's choice. > >Some programs like d4, most will never play d4. > >Which one to trust? I believe that most top programs will play d4 if you give them enough time. Chessmaster6000(ss=10) found d4 in less than 10 minutes. Crafty17.11 is slower but it also found d4 in less than 4 hours(3:42:17) at depth 14. My hardware is pentiumIII450 I used Crafty17.11 as an engine for Hiarcs7.32 with hash tables 128 Mbytes. Uri
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