Author: Marc van Hal
Date: 14:14:16 07/16/02
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On July 16, 2002 at 01:26:34, Dann Corbit wrote: >On July 16, 2002 at 01:18:45, K. Burcham 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. >> >> >>most here are aware of this. Noomen,Kure, etc. >>not the answer I was looking for at all, Dan. >> >>these "book builders", what databases do they consult? > >I expect that they consult everything at their disposal. That would include all >the latest FIDE, SSDF and correspondence games looking for a bust, as well as >Encyclopedia if Chess Openings, Modern Chess Openings, Batsford Chess Openings, >books on theory for each of the individual openings, and anything else they can >get their hands on. It's their job, after all. > >>where are they getting their moves? > >See above. > >>what is the fide rating of these "book builders". > >Generally they are not GM's but they don't have to be. > >>do these book builders claim that they have researched and studied moves >> that no GM in history has ever played? > >Doubt it. But they may have done so. > >>do these book builders claim that they spend 1000"s of hours using programs >> playing openings over and over, until they can conclude that they have >> an original opening line to put in their "wrote his own book". > >Some have definitely done so. > >>please comment how you look at these "wrote his own book". > >I don't think that there is such a thing as "wrote his own book" in 99.999% of >the cases. It's just too specialized. If you talk about building the books and creating most noveltys himself. I must be very rare. And this is extremely much work and manny hours more then ony insert them manualy This also can be done by more persons at once though. Marc van Hal
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