Author: Bela Andrew Evans
Date: 11:22:40 03/20/98
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KK, I disagree with the idea that you can autoplay and handtune your opening book to gain a big advantage against a program with a sufficiently varied opening book. For example, look at crafty's mega opening files, or Fritz's powerbook, etc. How long would it take to hand tune opening against something which could play different opening lines for hundreds upon hundreds of games without repeating the same line. Even with autoplay, this would take too long to make it practical. On the other hand, hand tuning with autoplay against Rebel, which plays so many Caro Kann and Slav lines, could be quite effective. Having said that, I don't see any reason why the chess programmers shouldn't make periodic opening book updates available -- they could simply graft the latest games onto their already huge opening books and make the results available on their web sites. The buying public would be grateful, surely. Bela
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