Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 11:20:40 08/24/01
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On August 24, 2001 at 14:05:22, Uri Blass wrote: [snip] >I think that it is better to improve your engine instead of crying about books. >If your engine is good enough then a small book that was generated manually by >you is enough to win because the engine is going to find the good moves when it >is out of book. > >It is also possible to get programs out of book in few moves by lines like 1.e4 >e5 2.Be2 and I expect programs to get 50% > >If your engine is weaker without book than other programs than the problem is >with the engine. I think you are seriously underestimating the value of a good opening book. Try an experiment by playing a program without a book against one that has a book. The program without a book will be absolutely slaughtered. And a bad book is worse than no book. I made a book before from 3 million games. I told it to discard no moves at all. It still plays decent because it uses statistics. But a program with a good book will crush a program using my "silly" book.
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