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Subject: Re: Universal opening book

Author: pavel

Date: 19:56:45 12/21/01

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On December 21, 2001 at 22:50:59, Dann Corbit wrote:

>On December 21, 2001 at 22:31:20, pavel wrote:
>
>>hi,
>>   just thinking if its possible to create an opening book (from a set of pgn,
>>for portability), that would have positions, which are not deep enough, to
>>create any kinda tactic (we will live it to the chessprogram) and also programs
>>can come out of the book in an equal position. I agree that (maybe) it would
>>need some extra work, but this would be something that would be really
>>interesting, esp, in case of eng-eng games, and perhaps show a more accurate
>>rating of the programs in long set of games, without the influence from the
>>opening book.
>
>Lots of companies (and amateurs) have tried to do that.  The problem is that
>there are mistakes in all of them, no matter how carefully made they are.


IMO most opening books has mistakes, so does all chess programs. I think there
will be a lot of contribution from everyone to make it better, once there is a
finih version out.

Who reports about Bewolf's, crafty's, yace's, Fritz's bugs most of the time?
exactly my point.

pavs



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