Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 20:40:50 08/24/01
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On August 24, 2001 at 10:23:50, Ed Schröder wrote: >Let me try to give me my view on opening books that aren't written by chess >programmers themselves. > >Problem description: An opening book adds xx elo points to a chess engine. >An opening book can be written by the chess programmer or not. > >IMO the the ICCA should demand not only the name of the author of the chess >engine but also the author of the opening book. Author of the chess engine >and the opening book should be tied into one team as the opening book is an >essential part of program good for xx elo points. > >Such a rule could end any form of book incest and avoid discussions like this. I agree with this. If I am playing in a tournament, I don't mind if a team uses a particular person to make a book. That's just a multi-person team. But I'd like to play against everyone only once. I don't want to play against the same book several times. bruce
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