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Subject: Re: 100.000+ hand tuned bookmoves??

Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto

Date: 05:59:56 06/30/02

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On June 30, 2002 at 04:42:02, Mike S. wrote:

>On June 29, 2002 at 13:25:01, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:
>
>>(...)
>>Any serious program of today has more like 100000+ hand tuned bookmoves,
>
>What do you mean by "hand tuned"? Is this a process which takes more than a few
>seconds per move (I suppose yes)?
>
>Can you give an estimation how long it takes to hand tune, per move. I'd like to
>calculate how many opening expert's man-hours must have been necessary for such
>a book.

IIRC, the Rebel Century 4 book has > 600 000 moves, and is a work
of 13 years.

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GCP



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