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Subject: Re: Book Openings Test (Larry Kaufman)

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 03:58:40 05/11/01

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On May 11, 2001 at 06:17:13, Dana Turnmire wrote:
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>BOOK OPENINGS TEST  (Larry Kaufman)
>
>There are many ways to evaluate chess programs.  They can be played against each
>other, played against human opponents, or tested on problem sets.  In this
>article I will introduce yet another way to evaluate chess programs.  The basic
>idea is to compare the program's choice of move to the choices made by masters
>over the years.

1)It is possible that more than 75% of the masters choose the same move because
the move is popular and not because the move is better than another unpopular
move that may give the same result.

2)More than 75% of the masters may be wrong so a program that is better than the
masters may fail in this test.

Uri



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