Author: Marc van Hal
Date: 05:15:37 08/02/01
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On August 02, 2001 at 07:03:06, Adam Oellermann wrote: >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 Something which can help is if you want a small openings book use Kasparov's games most of the time computers do agree with these moves. But i also have a database with 35.000 games which is prety good for an openingsbook containes games from 2600 rated and above and analyses
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