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

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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