Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 22:20:01 07/15/02
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On July 16, 2002 at 01:15:13, Russell Reagan wrote: >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? They have been writing chess opening books for decades. You can bet that they are pretty darn good at it, too, or they would be replaced by one that is better. Perhaps adds 150 ELO to the pro chess engines. > 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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