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Subject: Re: _Poor opening preperation of programs in WMCCC

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 06:18:13 08/25/00

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On August 25, 2000 at 04:08:14, Uri Blass wrote:

>I thought that the fact that nimzo got mate in 11 out of book against SOS
>and a winning position against shredder was a result of impressive opening
>preperation of alexander kure but I found that all the positions in the book
>were from the history of human-human games and not novelties of alexander.
>
>The fact that it is possible to build a better opening book by using only
>history games of humans without inventing something new is disappointing.
>
>Uri


You overlook the main point. Just because humans have played the move doesn't
matter.  Someone has to tell the program to follow that variation.  _that_
takes a huge amount of time.



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