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Subject: Re: Opening book work

Author: Andrew Williams

Date: 11:31:32 01/25/02

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On January 25, 2002 at 14:25:12, Scott Gasch wrote:

>Hi all,
>
>One of the big TODOs on my list is work on my engine's opening book.  Right now
>its automatically generated based on some PGN games I got from the 'net.  While
>I'm certainly no expert (I'm in fact terrible at chess) I'd like concentrate on
>one opening at a time and tune the way that opening is played to benefit the
>machine.  For example I already try to avoid kid and benko openings because I've
>found the engine does not play them well.  Despite what people say about the
>Benoni I think it does ok with that one.
>
>What I'd like to do is play a bunch of (rated or unrated) games with some engine
>on ICC that's around the same strength as mine using the same opening.  Steffen
>and I did this at one point with the Alekhine's and I think it was beneficial
>for us both.  If anyone's interested, let me know.
>
>Also any other ideas about book tuning would be appreciated!
>
>Scott

I'd be happy to do this. Let me know when :-)

Andrew



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