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Subject: Re: Effect of books, round 1

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 05:15:36 08/26/02

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On August 26, 2002 at 07:59:30, Johan Hutting wrote:

>On August 25, 2002 at 19:04:34, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:
>
>>I will run another test tonight but this time using Fritz 7. It would be best to
>>also run a test at SSDF timecontrols IMHO, but I cannot miss my computer for
>>that long. Any volunteers?
>
>Just a suggestion, instead of running Fritz-Fritz, run two tournaments:
>sjeng (deepfritz.ctg) - fritz (deepfritz.ctg)
>sjeng (the random book) - fritz (deepfritz.ctg)
>
>That, to some extend, would point out the benefits an amateur engine has vs
>commercial engines, which was the reason that started all this in the first
>place.
>
>I don't have a random .ctg handy here so I can't test it, but an old, buggy
>version of celes (rated 1800- or so) once scored 4/20 vs deep fritz in a 5 0
>match while both used deepfritz.ctg.

it seems impossible to me to score so well against deep fritz.

I believe that movei can get more than it against 1800 programs with
deepfritz.ctg even if movei is using no book and starts 1.e4 a6 1.e4 a5 1.e4 b6
1.e4 b5,....

Uri




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