Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 13:59:45 07/12/01
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On July 12, 2001 at 15:35:47, Larry Oliver wrote: > >Starting with its book turned off and left to its own devices, could todays top >programs on a very fast computer with say 12 hours per move think time, invent >the standard openings? Have not tested it lately, but Crafty used to like to play the Sicilian dragon, if you remove the opening book. >If so, that would seem to prove the old standard openings >are completely sound. Nothing of the sort. It would prove that there are no tactical gaffes within <n> ply, where <n> is however deep the computer succeeded in diving. >If not, considering how good modern programs/machines are, >would this not seem to indicate something is wrong with the openings? Ha ha! Delete your opening book and then play against GM's on ICC (or other programs equipped with a good book). Computers are weak at opening calculations [which is why they *need* an opening book], absurdly strong in the middle game, weak again in the early endgame, and suddenly become omniscient in the late endgame. There are some programs that can play reasonably well without an opening book. But they will all make big mistakes from time to time without one. A debugged computer chess program will never make shallow tactical mistakes. Every human, including GM's, will make shallow tactical mistakes from time to time (obviously the GM's far less often than a patzer will).
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