Author: Mogens Larsen
Date: 08:20:34 08/02/01
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On August 02, 2001 at 10:53:02, Ed Panek wrote: >Lets say 2 programs are playing a standard game. the opening books lead to >instant replies to move 20. then at move 20 your chess engine begins pondering >its move for 7 minutes and then it moves. The game ends in a win for your >program. Is there a danger to adding this 7 minute pondered move into an >extended type opening book file? So next time it plays this opening it will see >that for 7 minutes it saw this as the movelast time...so why waste 7 minutes >again reaching the same conclusion? play the move right away. Gandalf does this. A won game serves as a book extension in the sense that moves from a won game are stored and will be played as bookmoves if the game is repeated. I'm not sure about if there are any exceptions to this rule based on the issues raised by Ricardo Gibert. Mogens.
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