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Subject: Re: Who is the better chess program author?

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 11:36:07 12/12/01

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On December 12, 2001 at 13:51:37, Ren Wu wrote:

>On December 12, 2001 at 00:33:36, Christophe Theron wrote:
>
>>The least important kind of experts from the list above are the chess experts.
>>
>>Yes, sorry.
>>
>>
>>
>>    Christophe
>
>But who is responsible for making opening book?
>
>Looks to me that auto generated book (or book made by programmer) is not as good
>yet.
>
>A chess expert at side can be valuable for this.

I believe at some point, computer generated books will be better than human
books.  We are a long ways from there right now, but I think some simple
breakthroughs can change it.

I have 24 million chess positions which have long time control analysis.  And
200 million+ with about 9 plies.  If this data is mini-maxed, and combined with
database information about what people do by statistical inferences to their
ELO, the number of those with high ELO choosing the move, the won/loss/draw
ratio from careful subsets of the data, etc. -- then I think a computer will do
better than a human.  After all, that's what the humans are doing.  And the
computer will make fewer mistakes.  The only difficulty is programming the right
variables into the mix.  If the queries are performed in ANSI SQL, then it
should be very simple to test a very large range of possibilities.



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