Author: Vincent Diepeveen
Date: 17:14:30 08/02/01
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On August 02, 2001 at 11:20:34, Mogens Larsen wrote: >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. Should ask Steen of course, but when i blitzed against it at the internet its only condition seemed to be that it had had to win that game before. >Mogens.
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