Author: Tony Werten
Date: 00:26:09 07/13/01
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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? I've been working on this now for a couple of years. Haven't had much succes yet. Found a way to reduce the computertime a bit and am using 4 computers now to try to build a decent book. It looks ok. Not good, not bad. Maybe if I let 20 computers run for a couple of years, it becomes quite good. The reason why it's not such a bad idea, is that the program chooses what the important line is by calculation. If in a game it enters this line, at least it won't hit a sudden suprise (very often) because it doesn't understand the line. (ie if it thought it was a bad line it would not have played it, if it thought it was good, it would have been investigated deeper ) cheers, Tony >If so, that would seem to prove the old standard openings >are completely sound. If not, considering how good modern programs/machines are, >would this not seem to indicate something is wrong with the openings?
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