Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 11:27:36 07/16/02
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On July 16, 2002 at 14:24:26, William H Rogers wrote: >In my opinion it is better to work on opening stratgies, then work on opening >books. As quoted below, some times other programs or people will make very bad >opening moves just to throw you out of book. If on the other hand, you program >can assume control of the center squares in the first 10 or so moves then you >will be ahead of the game reguardless of what the opponent plays. What if the opponent's opening book leads you into the Evans Gambit? >Opening books can greately increase your programs strenght and can save you a >lot of valuable time which can be used in later deeper searches. Besides lots of hidden threats, a 20 move deep opening book might be half of the game. A 50% time advantage is the same thing as having a CPU that is twice as fast. You can get a small amount of randomness from an opening book. This is important to avoid getting nailed by the same problem over and over. If I see you have lost two games in a row by QGD, guess what I am going to play against you.
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