Author: James T. Walker
Date: 19:30:59 01/03/02
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On January 03, 2002 at 15:34:55, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: >On January 03, 2002 at 15:10:23, James T. Walker wrote: > >>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. > >Why do you think Rebel company hires a professional like Jeroen >Noomen to make the book? IIRC he has been working more than 10 years >on it. > >I think the Rebel website even explicitly states all variations >were manually entered and checked. > >-- >GCP Checked for what? They may be checked to insure the line does not contain a blunder but do you think they can check 40K variations to insure that Rebel will "understand" the position it ends up in? And on top of that they are subject to go out of book anywhere in the line vs an opponent that is not booked up to the same depth. The only way you can "understand" your entire book is to limit it to a very small size. In that case you will probably be out of book early and in "unknown" territory. Jim Jim
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