Author: Mike S.
Date: 05:57:19 11/11/00
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On November 11, 2000 at 03:26:41, Tanya Dchenka wrote: >The strength of a chess program is more influenced on by how the opening book is >made. If you make the strongest opening book yourself then you have made the >strongest program. The difference in strength between the engines influences the >game less than when the game is forced into a hopeless position by a bad opening >book. I think you overestimate the books by far. The impression of opening books being decisive, has come because many engines fighting in tournaments are very close to each other in strength, or a game is decided by book preparation then and when. But in general, you cannot expect more from a book than to give the program a more or less equal position (normally with even material, and within an evaluation margin of +- 0.x). In most of the cases, the engine quality decides. If this wouldn't be the case, everyone would just cook books instead of improving algorithms. In my view, books are just one (smaller) part of the success. Match AnMon with the best available book against Fritz6 without a book. Fritz6 wins. Regards, M.Scheidl
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