Author: Michel Langeveld
Date: 14:04:21 07/07/00
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On July 06, 2000 at 22:03:26, Robert Hyatt 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. > >This is a bogus title for a thread. CAP isn't right in all cases. Neither >is "most popular move". Nor "move suggested by Kasparov (or Anand or Karpov >or any other GM)". > >CAP data _is_ good and reliable. You simply have to use it as one of several >decision-making ideas. Not _the_ decision making idea. Weighted with other >things like frequency, learning, even simple positional evaluation, CAP data >can contribute to a better move choice. Used by itself, it can also contribute >to a bad choice. As can even a top GM's suggestion(s). > >If you don't want to use the data, don't. But I don't see any reason to >suggest that others should not try it. They might have a better idea than >you do (or than I do). > >Dismissing something just because you don't see (yet) how to use it is not >a good way to make progress. Had I dismissed bitmaps so quickly, I would have >missed something that has turned out to be very interesting and useful. > > > > >IMHO... I fully agree with this....
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