Author: Vincent Diepeveen
Date: 11:42:49 06/22/02
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On June 22, 2002 at 14:20:17, Uri Blass wrote: >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. says the layman. this would mean you lose directly. a very small manual book doesn't work against books like from Noomen or Kure. it's like 0.5 out of 20 you score with it. If you have a look who plays at world champs you'll see that majority has their own book maker. > 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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