Author: Uri Blass
Date: 11:20:17 06/22/02
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On June 22, 2002 at 13:25:00, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: >On June 21, 2002 at 15:18:33, Jeroen Noomen wrote: > >>On June 21, 2002 at 12:45:30, Miguel A. Ballicora wrote: >> >>>The fact that some amatateurs agree does not change the fact that commercial >>>engines can benefit from using one author in different teams i.e. the book >>>author. >> >> >>The commercial programs all have different opening experts. I don't think they >>will or want to use another opening book. Don't forget that trusting the use of >>another book involves a lot of testing. Even if I *could* use f.e. the ChessBase >>books, I would never do it. Rely on your own book, which is thoroughly tested, >>that is the only way. I believe that changing the book in a tournament can only > >this is complete nonsense Jeroen, >because the alternative for most amateurs is to have an automatic generated >book which is poor tested and even worse designed. No It is better for them to use a small book that is generated manually. Compared to that using >*any* commercial book is a boost of the weakest chain by up to 500 points >easily. I do not see it. I think that it is better to have an hardware that is twice faster and a small book of some hundreds of lines that is generated manually. A good book can help but the difference is not very big. I can get the opponents out of book with equality with white so I see no reason to use automatic generated book and take risks of losing out of book. Uri
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