Author: James T. Walker
Date: 12:10:23 01/03/02
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On January 03, 2002 at 10:35:39, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: >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 I believe the Rebel book is over 40,000 different variations. Do you really believe they all lead Rebel to a position which it "Likes/understands" better than all other positions???? This makes a nice theory but I'm sure in practice this is not possible. Jim
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