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Subject: Re: What is the cause of the top 10 SSDF programs to lose?

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 13:52:07 06/24/02

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On June 24, 2002 at 16:36:54, Uri Blass wrote:

>On June 24, 2002 at 15:24:25, Kurt Utzinger wrote:
>
>>Your assumption may be correct. On the basis of my running tests, it seems as if
>>the influence of the opening books used in engine-matches is rather important,
>>more important than I have imagined. Results to follow in some weeks.
>>Kurt
>
>My experience is different and Movei promotes divisions inspite of having no
>real book and there are a lot of things to improve in movei that are not about
>book.
>
>In the 5th division it has no book at all and in the 4th division it had no book
>except first move.

Against a professional program with a top quality book, it will surely cause
enormous problems.  Against other programs of the same caliber, it is not so
serious.



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