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Subject: Re: CM8000 Default vs. Kostick book

Author: Kurt Utzinger

Date: 12:44:11 04/23/01

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On April 23, 2001 at 14:56:21, John Merlino wrote:

>I have played 100 games each for G/10 and G/60 between the default CM8000
>opening book and the Kostick book (used for the CM_Utzinger personality).
>
>Here are the (probably very uninteresting) results:
>
>G/10 -- Kostick 51.5, CM8000 48.5 (+33 =37 -30)
>G/60 -- CM8000 50, Kostick 50 (+25 =50 -25)
>
>So, about the only thing I MIGHT be tempted to conclude is that the Kostick
>opening book is NOT one of the reasons for the current success of the
>CM_Utzinger personality. But, of course, more testing would have to be done (by
>people other than myself ;-).
>
>jm

I think the results are very interesting. Up to now I was convinced that the
Kostick-book had much more influence on the good results of my settings. By the
way CM8_Utzinger is also doing very hard with Gambit Tiger 2.0. Results will be
posted as soon as the 10-games-match is over.
Kurt



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