Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 10:17:03 12/27/97
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On December 27, 1997 at 09:22:52, Chris Whittington wrote: >So morality resides in the opening book ? We have politically correct >opening books now ? Presumably ECO only is politically correct and >additions to the book bring in active/passive/cooking/long >lines/autoplayer/cptr-cptr and these introduce political incorrectness ? > >Data with politics. Shall we submit our opening books to the >Czub-committee in future for acceptance or rejection ? You can make a >whole new email group with politically acceptable members for >pre-determination of the outcome ...... I think the issue is the use made of computer vs computer results. End users look at the Swedish list and assume that it stack ranks the engines involved in order of strength. And in their minds, strength is something absolute, not relative to the other engines. This is flawed even without killer books, but adding a lot of killer lines can only make this worse -- the end user may more easily form impressions of either engine that aren't coincident with how either engine would perform against them. In my opinion a killer book can be a step taken in the production of a misleading ad. This is my only argument against them. bruce
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