Author: Uri Blass
Date: 03:07:13 08/10/02
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On August 10, 2002 at 04:46:04, Mogens Larsen wrote: >On August 10, 2002 at 03:48:29, Kurt Utzinger wrote: > >>I agree with this statement but nevertheless have the feeling that Aristarch 4.4 >>and List 4.61 could be the first amateur engines that get more than the usual >>30-35 % against the best commercial programs. This does not necessarly mean that >>they can easily win all matches against other strong amateurs like Crafty 17.14, >>Little Goliath 2000 v3.7, Yace 0.99.56, Tao 5.4, Pepito v1.55 and so on. > >I don't dispute that impression or the likelihood of Aristarch performing >according to the most optimistic expectations. However, I would like to see some >solid evidence. There's a tendency to overevaluate new strong engines, eg. >"engine X beats the pants of everything om my comp". Behaviour that's not always >reproducable. I would be a very happy puppy if an amateur engine was capable of >scoring more than 40% against your average recent commercial engine (on more >than one computer). It's good to have new candidates. > >>By the way, in the Match Aristarch 4.4 vs Nimzo 7.32 (40'/40) it stands 1-1 but >>in the running third game, Aristarch 4.4 is already a pawn up. > >I'm running a little match against Pepito (also 40/40'). Mainly to test my new >Pepito book. So far Pepito is leading 3-1 with an advantage for Aristarch in the >fifth game. The progress of Pepito is definately due to my opening book *cough*. > >Regards, >Mogens How do you build opening books for chess programs? Based on result that I see with movei I may consider to replace the small opening book of movei that I built manually with a book that it's only target is to get the opponent out of book. I may consider having a lot of lines like 1.a3 1.c3 1.d3 1.e3 1.h4 or 1.e4 a6 in my next book. Uri
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