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Subject: Re: Questions to be answered in the WMCCC.

Author: Aaron Tay

Date: 06:10:57 08/27/00

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On August 27, 2000 at 08:28:33, Uri Blass wrote:

>On August 27, 2000 at 07:29:46, Aaron Tay wrote:
>
>>On August 26, 2000 at 21:39:27, Jorge Pichard wrote:
>>
>>>On August 26, 2000 at 18:17:49, Alexander Kure wrote:
>>>
>>>>On August 26, 2000 at 15:20:44, Sandro Necchi wrote:
>>>>
>>>>[...]
>>>>
>>>>>>Which program had the best opening book? Shredder 5.0
>>>>
>>>>[...]
>>>>
>>>>Can't be, as Shredder had lost positions out of the opening against Rebel and
>>>>Nimzo.
>>>>
>>>>Greetings
>>>>Alex
>>>
>>>Two mediocre opening lines out of thousands of variations which is probably a
>>>least an average of 8 variation to every opening lines is a small percentage,
>>>which  I' am sure that it will be fixed before the final release of shredder 5.
>>>Now mention just one program that does not have any dubious lines ?
>>>
>>>Pichard.
>>
>>Hmm I suppose one of those programs that don't have any opening book at all!
>
>I think that shredder falled in the trap against nimzo because it had no >opening book in the relevant line.

True. But it was the chess engine's fault for falling into the trap. Not because
of a bad opening line!

Say my opening book consisted only of one line 1 e4!

After which my program loses to some "cooked" opening line ? Would you claim
that 1 e4 is a dubious line?







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