Author: J. C. Boco
Date: 22:07:42 04/23/02
I notice that the opening book for Chess Tiger has 8000 positions. There have been a handful of posts (in the archives) complaining about the small opening book--demonstrations of how ChessTiger misplayed an opening and suffers a bad evaluation because of an opening hole. When I purchased RebelCentury for the first time several years ago, I was very pleased to learn that I could use a database of chess games (from strong players) for the opening book ((and if you ask me to define "strong players", a majority of them were 2500-2600)). This offers a wonderful oppurtunity to play a varied game- most of the time strong theory was played against you, and if sometimes a suboptimal line was played I enjoyed the variety. ChessTiger has had its 8000 position book for many months now (over a half-year?). I suggest an easy way to significantly increase the opening book: Compile a database of games played with ELO>2500. How many games would fit into 8MB on a palm? If I recall correctly, when I loaded Rebel's ~500,000 game database it took up about 110MB. If the correlation between PC and Palm memory holds, then an 8MB palm should hold about 7% or 35,000 games. If the first 10-15 moves of each game is used as an opening book (perhaps more in sharper openings?) that would give a lowball estimate of a 350,000 position opening book for your palm running ChessTiger. The concept seems simple, and I present it in good faith. From my few posts in the past you will know that I have no real computer experience, so if there are simple technical objections or programming-headaches with this idea then chalk up my naive suggestiong to ignorance.
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