Author: José Carlos
Date: 03:05:28 08/25/01
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On August 25, 2001 at 04:22:39, Ingo Althofer wrote: >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. iii-v would be best by far if they build the book specially for the program. Every chess player (human or computer) need a book that let him/her/it play the positions he/she/it like best. The 3 names you give are very good experts at doing exactly that: finding the positions the program plays best. José C.
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