Author: Omid David
Date: 19:23:17 06/23/02
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On June 23, 2002 at 16:56:33, Kurt Utzinger wrote: >Your thoughts are somewhat identical with mines. We are not far away from the >time that in engine matches we do not test the program strenght but more the >features/databases implemented in a given program (book, tablebases). And if >this goes on in the same way, it will be no longer of interest to do normal >engine matches. > >Kurt First of all, you can never put forward a rule such as "No opening books allowed", since in such case the programmers will implement the book in the program, without any need to external file. Opening books can be used to test the programs under (almost)"perfect play" conditions assuming that the openings are kind of perfect play. As a simplest example if without a book, your program plays 1.a3 or even 1.e3, then you'd better fix the evaluation function.
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