Author: Bob Durrett
Date: 18:11:36 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. Keep in mind that those "humans" have opening books too! The stronger the human, the better is their opening repertoire. Top GMs have fantastic opening repertoires [i.e. "books"] I like the idea of forcing both the computers and their human opponents to play without their books. But how could that be accomplished? A GM cannot somehow have his/her memory erased! So, the next best thing would be to make both humans and computers start from early middlegame positions which are selected in some rational but random way, with neither the human nor the computer's programmers having any way of knowing which positions are to be selected. But this might give the humans an unfair advantage because humans, especially the top GMs, can use pattern recognition. They might recognize the position and remember the correct strategy to use from that position. The computers, I presume, might not be able to do that.
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