Author: Robert Henry Durrett
Date: 05:20:23 08/15/98
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On August 14, 1998 at 21:12:17, blass uri wrote: >I think it is a mistake to use other probabilities then 0 and 1 in competitions >like the WMCC. >The opening book should not be known to the public otherwise it is easy to learn >the program. >The program can learn after a game it loses by changing a probabilities >0 to 1 and 1 to 0 > >Do programs use an opening book with probability 0 and 1 in events like >the WMCC? > >How many positions the opening books of programs contain? > >Uri Perhaps that's one of the reasons why the people who submit their chess engines for evaluation would not wish to use the opening repertoire which comes with the published version. It seems that such competitions for ratings are, to some extent, competitions in selection of opening book lines. What is the answer to this problem? How can the "opening book competition" factor be removed? Is it sensible to do this?
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