Author: Ingo Althofer
Date: 01:22:39 08/25/01
It seems that opening books played a key role in the Maastricht championships. What are your opinions on the following scenario: Take one specific chess program X, and play a double round robin tournament where the six entrants are six copies of X, only differing by their opening books: (i) X + its normal book (from the commercial version of X) (ii) X without any opening book (iii) X + secret Kure-book (iv) X + secret Necchi-book (v) X + secret Noomen-book (vi) X + realtime human choice from the full ChessBase database during the opening phase (only the opening phase) Questions: * Is it true that (iii) - (vi) would end clearly above (i) and (ii)? If so, how large would the gap between the two groups be? * How much would the success of (iii), (iv), (v) depend on whether X=Rebel or Tiger or Fritz or Junior or Shredder or Crafty or ... * How would (vi) perform in comparison to (iii)-(v)? * Which person would be an ideal human in the (vi)-team? Ingo Althofer. PS: The ordering in (iii) - (v) was chosen by alphabet.
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