Author: Chessfun
Date: 19:55:26 08/03/00
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On August 03, 2000 at 11:31:02, blass uri wrote: >On August 03, 2000 at 11:23:16, Stephen Ham wrote: ><snipped> >>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 IMO the Fritz general.ctg book is one of the best. Power books have a lot of IMO unsound lines by comparison. Some of those lines may even be ok during games at normal time controls but a game of the length of the ones with Steve, I'm not surprised they chose not to use them. Thanks.
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