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

Author: Eddie

Date: 11:08:50 08/27/00

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On August 27, 2000 at 13:12:22, Detlef Pordzik wrote:

>On August 27, 2000 at 12:03:12, Eddie wrote:
>
>>On August 27, 2000 at 09:49:28, Detlef Pordzik wrote:
>>
>>>On August 27, 2000 at 02:15:27, Sandro Necchi wrote:
>>>
>>>>Yes, I am and the book is 2 years later than M-Chess one. This means that there
>>>>are 2 more years work improvements behind it!
>>>>
>>>>Of course I had to change a lot to make it suitable to the new program, but
>>>>overall results seems to indicate that when the new Shredder 5.0 will be
>>>>available with my book it should be rated about 80 points higher than Fritz 6a.
>>>>
>>>>Maybe more, but it is very difficult to know the correct Elo in advance. But
>>>>this gives you the figure of the improvements we have made. This is why we
>>>>believed we have very good chances to win the championship. Of course one needs
>>>>luck also, not only a good program!
>>>>
>>>>Sandro
>>>
>>>I am not so sure if I interpret all this correct, maybe it's just a wrong
>>>intention or assumption of mine.
>>>I sure do credit and respect your work and professionalism from your time
>>>together with Marty way back when.
>>>But I don't think this gives you the right to critisize and disrespect, what you
>>>can't measure nor have any insights.
>>>Until Sh3 the book was made by SMK himself - for the Sh 4 I was engaged by
>>>Millenium to create an entirely new book for the prog, right from the scratch.
>>>
>>>May I draw your attention towards the fact, that this 132 Megs book had it's
>>>reasonable share for the disguised rating on SSDF, scored extremely well vs the
>>>at that time state-of-the art competitors ?
>>>Nobody is perfect, for sure, and I would have needed 2 more years at least to
>>>tighten it up, but we couldn't agree on a continue.
>>>Yet, all preferences had to be done + set by hand/manually  -as you should know,
>>>and these preferences are MY understanding of the way, this product should play.
>>>Which turned out to be not that failiure, as evidence gave proof.
>>>
>>>So, I wish you all the very best for the future of your cooking, and I mean it.
>>>But I think you really should stick it to measure, balance, critisize and
>>>whatsoever more of the job of your comrades in this very particular, small
>>>secenery of book cookers.
>>>
>>>Pleasant sunday, Sandro
>>>
>>>ELVIS
>>
>>Hi Elvis!
>>
>>How you doing over there in Spenge?!! :)   What's up with Atti?   And Lapo too?
>>
>>Shredder came out of the opening very poorly in 3 games during the tournament.
>>Yet it still held on to take the title .....
>>
>>So, in your opinion, is the cooked opening book more important THAN the strength
>>of the engine?  I'm just wondering here with all this talk of the new book .....
>>
>>Anyway, chat with ya later -- Queenie says hi too .....  :))
>
>Hi, my good man -
>
>everything stable in the green backyards of Germany.....
>
>concerning weak lines - they quite naturally occure in allmost ANY book - maybe
>the only existing different example under this view is the one of A.Kure for
>NIMZO - but, if so, he had ages of time to trim it under these aspects.
>Nevetheless :
>for my personal opinion it isn't of that importance every time, if a prog gets
>out of his book and shows a minus evaluation right after.
>At least me - I was much more interested if it "understood" the resulting
>middlegame and therefore could turn the page during the game.
>But : that's MY style of interpreting the job - maybe Sandro or the others see
>this totally different; it has to be respected anyway.
>
>As far as the general worthy of the book is concerned :
>having tournaments + their commercial importance in mind, the book sure is of
>major importance to "show" the product the most successful lines -
>in general it should be balanced with a grain of salt - it's an important PART
>of the show, not less but sure not more.
>In the end it's allways the code who's gotta do the job - but, no doubts, you
>can give him a hard time or make his day if showing him weak lines, for sure.
>
>Did this explain things a lil' clearer ?
>
>ELVIS

Oh yes that cleared up the whole situation!  Thanks a lot Elvis .... :))

I can't even imagine the work that it takes for you "book cookers" to get every
move right.   Too many possibilities ....

Maybe when I get some free time I'll create a book myself!  HA!!   Of course
I'll have you look it over for any slight flaws it may contain ... if any :)

In the mean time, keep on rockin' .... :))



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