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Subject: Re: Opening Book inflation

Author: john watson

Date: 11:48:09 08/12/00

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On August 12, 2000 at 14:25:55, Winfred Craft wrote:

>On August 12, 2000 at 14:17:46, john watson wrote:
>
>>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.
>
>I have a collection.pgn of games only between computers but it contains
>nowhere near 3 million moves.
>Winfred


Well, if the size of your collection.pgn isn't over 6Mb,
please send it to: j@watson.as



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