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Subject: Re: Question for Dan Corbit

Author: Russell Reagan

Date: 22:15:13 07/15/02

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On July 16, 2002 at 00:56:52, Dann Corbit wrote:

>On July 16, 2002 at 00:38:54, K. Burcham wrote:
>>Dan would you please define in detail, "wrote his own book".
>
>Vincent has hand-written his own chess opening book for his program.
>
>Nobody else has done this (as far as I know).
>
>They generally get a book from a professional book builder (Noomen/Kure/etc) if
>they are professional programs or perhaps one from Carlos Pesce or someone like
>that if they are amateur programmers.
>
>In any case, book creation by the original author is practically unknown.

What is so good about Noomen or Kure's opening books? Are they strong chess
players, or do they just have a knack for writing opening book lines that are
good for computers? And how good of an opening book could the average author
create using the basic chess books as their resources? Interesting, I think.

Russell



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