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

Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto

Date: 07:35:39 01/03/02

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On January 03, 2002 at 10:24:34, Jonas Cohonas wrote:

>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....

Yes and yes.

For a nice example of this happening, see Rebel - Sjeng and The King - Sjeng
in the Dutch championships.

Both French defenses, but in the first Sjeng got a position where it
is not able to play the best moves and lost horribly.
(in fact, Sjeng would even have played good moves with white,
because they were much more 'natural' for it)

In the second game we chose a different variation and
Sjeng got a position it could understand, and went on to win.

Objectively, both openings were even, but in practise, they were not.

--
GCP



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