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Subject: Re: It seems that Shredder6 is not stronger than Shredder5.32,just equal!

Author: Jonas Cohonas

Date: 07:24:34 01/03/02

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On January 03, 2002 at 09:40:42, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:

>On January 03, 2002 at 09:20:57, Jonas Cohonas wrote:
>
>>On January 03, 2002 at 09:09:09, Andrea Bo wrote:
>>
>
>>Anyway, as long as the engines come out of book about equal +0.40 -0.40 (within
>>that range) it should be a fair way of judging the results based on those games,
>>since the engines have to think for themselves when out of book.
>>I personally don't think that books have that big of an influence on the results
>>as long as then engines don't come out of book down a pawn or two, and this is
>>not the case in any of the Shredder6 v Junior 7 games, so i see no problem
>>there.
>
>The issue is not being a pawn up or down. The issue is that the book
>should steer the engine into a position where the moves it naturally
>selects are the best ones.
>
>I'd rather be a pawn down in a position where my engine plays the
>best moves, than be a pawn up and have it completely blow the position
>after a few moves.
>
>--
>GCP

So in other words you believe that a book can help make an engine play better
moves when out of book??
If two different books leave the engines out of book in the exact same position
will the "default" book help the engine....

Regards
Jonas



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