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Subject: Re: Power Books

Author: blass uri

Date: 08:31:02 08/03/00

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On August 03, 2000 at 11:23:16, Stephen Ham wrote:
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>When I began my Correspondence Chess Challenge verus Fritz 6a and Nimzo 7.32, I
>asked whether ChessBase USA would let the chess engines use the Power Books. To
>my surprise, ChessBase decided that the chess enginers were stronger without
>these books becuase they noticed that the programs would often play into lines
>that they didn't understand, and then fail to play well.

I think that another problem is that they may play into objectively bad lines.

Not everything in theory is correct and bigger books are not always better
books.

Uri



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