Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 08:07:10 07/16/02
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On July 16, 2002 at 05:56:35, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: >On July 16, 2002 at 05:50:56, Russell Reagan wrote: > >>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? > >Yes. > >If you use no book and your engine can play a decent opening by >itself, you'll throw your opponents out of book as well, so you >have good survival chances. But you can't steer the positions you'll >get, which may be a disadvantage. > >-- >GCP However, with _no_ book you leave yourself open for preparation of traps. I saw Ken Thompson do this to NuChess years ago at an ACM event. You don't want to leave that kind of "hole" for a major event...
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