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Subject: Re: Question for Dan Corbit

Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto

Date: 01:18:53 07/16/02

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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).

I wrote my own opening book. A smaller version was in present in Leiden,
but it didn't play because of a configuration error. It got it's big trial
in Maastricht.

Like Gerd, I just combine general opening references and specific books
on the variations I like my engine to play. I can make my books in
ChessBase and import the result into my engine directly, or into most
interfaces.

It takes time, but I find it pleasant, and it can often be done while
I'm running engine tests in the background.

It got busted 3 times in Maastricht, once with a trap I didn't know,
two times with newer theory than what was in the book. Overall, I did
get the positions I wanted to play, so I'm reasonably happy with it.

That said, if I'd find a good bookauthor I'd trust, I'd gladly leave
the bookmess to someone else :)

--
GCP



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