Author: Amir Ban
Date: 08:30:40 12/26/97
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On December 26, 1997 at 10:59:45, Thorsten Czub wrote: >My mood while watching Mchess7 reduces more and more. >I have seen bishop-game where Mchess was 27 moves deep in book meanwhile >hiarcs computed a while. >Now I see c28 vienna game happening and we are in the 32.move and mchess >still in book. One game after the other is cooked out somewhere else >(sandro necci, or in massive autoplayer-games-merged into many >booklines), and I don't see much sense in doing this. >WHO can trust that these games, if played under the same conditions as >in the original "citchen" , will not result in the same LOSS for hiarcs >? >I play 100 games hiarcs6 vs. mcp7 and make an opening book out of the 30 >losses of hiarcs6. >Now I put these 30 games into a book. >When stupid customer or ssdf-guy plays mchess7 vs. hiarcs6 he will get >openings beginning in exactly these 30 losses and also some other >openings caused by whatever circumstances. > >I think this helps mchess7 to get a better score at all. And hiarcs gets >a weaker one. But hiarcs was released before mcp7, so it cannot defend >much. >Ok - they all have learning algorithms, but I doubt that these mechanism >will always help...not from my experience, what I have seen. This sounds incredible. Incredibly stupid, IMO. Doesn't all this mean that the professional programs don't have enough variation in their tournament book ? Looks to me like they painted themselves into a corner and are playing an obscure book-war. What good would these obscene practices have against a program that plays a different line every time ? Amir
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