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Subject: Re: Brute Force

Author: Bruce Moreland

Date: 23:33:50 10/03/01

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On October 03, 2001 at 15:50:36, Sergei Smith wrote:

>A couple of centuries ago they had never heard of
>"Najdorf" so we can assume that in the future new and
>better openings will be developed that
>would currently still be considered A00 irregulars and
>that new variations or completely new openings will be
>used that we currently do not even expect.

This may not be true.  300 years ago, nobody had heard of Antarctica.  That
we've found it since then doesn't mean that there are more continents out there.

bruce

>
>My purpose was to build a shallow/broad opening book.
>I wanted to run a 6-ply or maybe an 8-ply brute
>force search and import all EPD into an experimental
>opening book for the ChessBase GUI.
>Here arises another problem since the GUI will build
>its book from moves but not from positions.
>To this end we need to look to "all possible moves"
>within 6|8 ply from the start position
>instead of "all possible positions".
>If you want to help with this project, be welcome.



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