Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 13:30:29 01/31/02
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On January 31, 2002 at 16:11:26, José Carlos wrote: [snip] > My book: > > - was based in pgn files, having winning side into account > - had many lines from Carlos Pesce's excellent book > - had some hand tuned lines, that I analyzed myself with four computers at the >same time (four different programs, one of which was Averno, just to make sure >it would 'understand' the positions), and with a bit of my intuition (not much, >though, as my ELO is only about 2150 FIDE) That's pretty darn good, if you ask me. > - had tons of automatically learned knowledge. I had a computer running test >matches with learning enabled for a week. Do you guess what the opponents >were...? :) > > I had been waiting for this tournament since, in CCT3, I didn't have my new >version ready and had to play with an obsolete version. I did my best >(considering my lack of time) to well in CCT4. And I believe I did not too bad >:) I strongly suspect that you have the best amateur book on the planet. I don't think that most people put this much effort into it. Book sophistication is very important, especially for these contests. It's a fine line (in fact) whether most amateur books are better than no book at all. A 30% time penalty will probably lead to a lot of losses [assuming that 1/3 of the game is in book]. But a collection of 30% bad book lines will do just the same. ;-)
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