Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto
Date: 10:31:37 05/08/01
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On May 08, 2001 at 13:21:07, Wayne Lowrance wrote: >Bob, I think that I have at times destroyed book lines for normal time controls >by playing blitz and bullet with losses. But these lines may be perfectly sound >for long time controls. I do not know this to be fact. I do not think this matters all that much for a computer. Even then, nearly all games were played with the same timecontrol. >Also another thought. Consider two opening main lines a.) Line (a) is in fact >better than line b). But against a better program line (a) loses, _not_ because >it is a bad line, it just lost. Maybe line (a) was playing a superior cpu, a >superior program and it lost. > >Opening line (b) is inferior to line (a) stipulated and will loose even worse >but now both of the lines, as I understand are Kaput. If the opening book was done manually, and line a is clearly better, then why is b in the opening book at all? Also, decent booklearning will account for the fact that losing at the hands of a stronger player is not so bad. If you don't do this, you will get into SERIOUS trouble fast. -- GCP
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