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Subject: Re: M-Chess Pro7 : strength ??

Author: Chris Whittington

Date: 10:26:39 12/27/97

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On December 27, 1997 at 11:38:43, Thorsten Czub wrote:

>>If a game is won 5-10 moves are added to the book. The next time
>>another 5-10 moves are added to the book and so on.
>>
>>This would explain the long comp-comp book lines. No cooks IMO as
>>the engine has all figured it out itself.
>>
>>- Ed Schroder -
>
>If sandro, peter or marty put the lines in BEFORE they release it with
>autoplayer-games, or sandro does it by hand. The lines are in the book.
>Thats my point.
>If the program LATER, running in sweden, adds something, thats a totally
>different point !
>Thats reaction. Not action.
>I see a difference in this.

Instead of trying to control what may and what may not get put into an
opening book, why don't you just shift the whole issue onto the real
problem, namely an apparent inability of the target program/programmer
to deal with the problem ?

if program abc stands still in its opening book, while program xyz
trains, then sure xyz gets some points.

but if both train before release against the previous version of their
target opponents, then nobody gets an advantage.

all the programmers have banks of autoplayers and book experts, let them
train beforehand; then you can stop trying to attack certain teams with
barrages of hostile propaganda.

put simply this whole bandwidth consuming exercise is Rebel good, Mchess
bad. As in moral Rebel doesn't agree with book cooking or training,
therefore good; Mchess does, therefore bad; and, to boot, bad Mchess
gets an advantage.

Its an Animal Farm argument. Based on some supposed false morality.

Persoanlly, I look beyond it, to just what is is that is causing certain
individuals (and its the same ones as last time) to be attacking Mchess
and its programming team.

Chris Whittington




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