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Subject: Re: CM8000 Default vs. Kostick book

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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