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Subject: Re: Shredder’s opening book in London

Author: Stefan Meyer-Kahlen

Date: 12:37:51 09/06/00

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On September 06, 2000 at 14:59:23, Shanti wrote:

>Hi
>
>To get a very bad position in 2 out of 9 games is not a good sign.
>
>I beleive that the quality of the book can be measured by the evaluation of the
>program when it gets out of the book.

I don't think that this is really important. It is more important that the
program knows what to do and find the right moves. The evaluation doesn't matter
much.

> I think the type of position is very
>important and if Shredder likes certain positions than the book should do its
>best to give Shredder those positions.

Yes, I agree. This is what we are trying to do.

>
>Anyway, I watched Shredder openings during the Israeli Chess League and to be
>honest, I wasn't very happy with what I saw :-)

We had a completely different book then.

Stefan

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