Author: r.c. richards
Date: 20:24:02 12/14/00
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On December 14, 2000 at 17:37:39, John Merlino wrote: >On December 14, 2000 at 17:00:54, Daniel Chancey wrote: > >>Could the CM team modify the opening books so that human and GM personalities >>have good knowledge of opening theory? Many times does humans go out of book in >>less than 5 moves on well known openings. Many more rated greater than 2200 >>fall out of book after 1.g3 >> >>Castle2000 > >The "human" personalities are only there to give the user a wide variety of >opponents. Many of them use very deep books, many of them do not, and it varies >across the board. Most of the stronger personalities use a deep book, but not >all. Most of the lower personalities have no book or a book that only goes a few >plies, but not all. There are personalities rated less than 600 who use the >CM8000 book! The point is variety. > >As for the GMs, their books are based SOLELY on a database of their games. So if >there are no games of a certain line in the database, then that line will not be >present in the opening book. This could be modified, of course, if some concrete >examples could be given. > >I doubt, though, that the "human" personalities are going to be changed in any >way. Do you think you might figure out a way to have the dumbed down personalities play more consistently? I mean, the dumbed down personalities sometimes make very stupid moves. Yeah, I know, they're supposed to be dumber, but not that dumb. I called and ordered 8000 today. They had no idea why they hadn't offered the upgrade to me. At the price you're offering it for, it's too cheap to turn down. RC
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