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Subject: Re: Opening Book inflation

Author: john watson

Date: 11:17:46 08/12/00

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On August 12, 2000 at 13:56:04, Jorge Pichard wrote:

>On August 12, 2000 at 13:38:41, john watson wrote:
>
>>Does anybody have any idea how to quickly inflate Deep Junior's
>>book from 2,900,000 to 3,000,000 positions ?
>>I like round numbers, you see.
>>Maybe by importing huge .pgn or .cbh files of unusual games ?
>>The quality of the games is less important, as long they inflate the book it's
>>OK with me.
>>But from where can such files be downloaded ?
>
>I once was told 10 years ago by a local GM friend of mine that the number of
>openings which I was capable of remembering was not that important, but how good
>I understood the position after the opening was over is really what count.
>Therefore, the Quality of the opening lines whether it is 2,900,000 or just
>59,000 good opening lines is better than having a larger opening lines as long
>as those opening lines are free of errors and are the best for that particular
>program.
>
>PS: If it take closed openings to defeat good programs like Fritz 6a or junior 6
>programmers should concentrate on programming those closed openings lines like
>the stone wall defense used by Kramnik against Deep Junior, plus special ALS
>Anti lock system in case other programmers apply the same technique in order
>to make their programs perform better.
>
>Pichard.

That's beside the point, I just want a 3,000,000 position opening book,
that's all.



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