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Subject: Your plans for the opening book?

Author: J. C. Boco

Date: 16:36:36 12/08/01

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On December 08, 2001 at 01:32:43, Christophe Theron wrote:

>On December 08, 2001 at 01:09:16, J. C. Boco wrote:
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>>I guess I should have figured that out, huh?
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>>The website say Chess Tiger has 8000 positions for an opening book.  Could you
>>compare this number to the popular Sapphire II computer by Novag?
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>Chess Tiger for Palm has much less opening lines than the Sapphire.
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>>  Is 8000 an
>>upper limit for the common 8Mb Palms?  If not, how high can you go with the 8
>>megs?
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>Approximately 1.000.000 positions (more if I compress more).
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>>  How many megs would you need (obviously future Palms) to have an opening
>>book that corresponded to Rebel Century's Opening book of around 300,000 games?
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>Is it 300.000 games or positions?
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>If it's 300.000 positions then one of today's Palm is more than enough.
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>>This is an exciting time to be alive!
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>Isn't it?
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>    Christophe



Could you share with us your plans for the opening book?  ARe you interested
more in modifying the program rather than adding lines to the book?  Is there a
consensus on this forum on what size an opening book is necessary to be
respectable?





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