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Subject: Re: To build a book or not?

Author: Russell Reagan

Date: 02:50:56 07/16/02

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On July 16, 2002 at 05:43:45, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:

>I didn't say it backfired!

Oops...my apologies :)

>I'm convinced that the results would have been
>worse if I hadn't used a book.
>My engine didn't play any bad lines from the book. In some games, the
>opponents simply had more and better theory and my engine could not find
>the correct moves by itself in the available time.

So essentially...

professional book > amateur book > no book ?

...and it wasn't a case of your book having anything particularly destructive to
Sjeng, but instead a case of your opponent having a superior book. Correct?

Russell



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