Author: Adam Oellermann
Date: 04:03:06 08/02/01
Hi everyone, I have reached that point in the lifecycle of Blikskottel where I am thinking about building an opening book. I am writing Blikskottel in order to win a bet, and one of the terms is that *no* code is to be taken from other chess engines. Therefore I need to write all the opening book stuff from scratch. My question is this: what kind of strength benefit can I expect from automatically building an opening book out of a database of GM-level games? Blikskottel currently rates around 1850-1900 on FICS, but is often forced to play very awkward positions resulting from inferior opening play. Many thanks Adam PS: I know that a better plan would be to build a "hand-tuned" opening book, but there are a few problems: - under the terms of the bet I would have to do it *myself* - I am a rather weak player (maybe 1500) - I don't really have the time or inclination anyway
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