Author: Thomas Mayer
Date: 10:23:11 03/12/01
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Hi Robert, >The point is that you have to address this in a way that is different from what >everyone is wanting to do. You don't fix the 'h4' problem by hacking together a >book with replies for 1. h4. You _must_ fix the engine so that it will simply >punish someone that plays 1. h4 because the program knows how to develop and >how to not castle into an attack. If white plays h4 and black doesn't castle >kingside, white is going to have problems as it gives up the center for >nothing. But trying to come up with a "book fix" is simply a whole lot of work >for nothing. Because there are lots of ways to transpose around book fixes. > >This is similar to trying to fix the "stonewall problem" with book lines. GM >players will run your shorts up a flagpole very quickly. I totally agree with you - but those Tiger-accounts can't fix the engine... and some more book lines in h4 will help a little bit, because there is a little bit more variaty in it's play, so it is not so easy to repeat allways the same game - if you have to some opening moves no response and the program must start immediately to calculate once someone will find a winning way... But as you said - the problem is the engine, not the book... Greets, Thomas
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