Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto
Date: 11:57:11 06/21/02
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On June 21, 2002 at 14:25:52, Randall Jouett wrote: >IMHO, a good(?) solution to this problem is to have all >programs use no opening book at all, having them rely >solely on pruning techniques and evaluation heuristics :^). >Now THAT would be an interesting tournament!!! :^). >I wonder if anyone has actually run a tournament like >this before? (Shrug.) The problem is that this wouldn't be representative of the real strength of a program. You normally use them with books. I imagine programs that were never tested without books would suddenly do a lot worse, though their actual playing strength hasn't changed. I design my program to play with a book. I think others do the same. >Hmmm. I wonder how many programmers have actually written >their programs to dive out of the book early, knowing that >a particular program will eventually wind up in time trouble >or a bad position or something? :^) :^). Could we see 1. A3! >in the not-to-distant future?? :^):^) It's been tried, but never been really successfull. -- GCP
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