Author: José Carlos
Date: 02:00:18 04/24/01
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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. IMO, this reasoning is wrong. Each opening book affects differently to each engine. So, a certain book can give program A exactly the positions it 'understans', and program B positions it can play, but nothing more. So, book_and_engine != book + engine. José C. >But, of course, more testing would have to be done (by >people other than myself ;-). > >jm
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