Author: José Carlos
Date: 06:50:47 08/26/02
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On August 26, 2002 at 09:27:10, Steve Coladonato wrote: >On August 26, 2002 at 09:02:12, Matthias Gemuh wrote: > >> >> >>I (www.gemuh.de) am of the opinion that books should by law be limited to 14 >>moves. This is enough to (almost) finish development and let the engines take >>over with almost all fighters still available for the battle. >>Engines should not be helped (???) beyond this point. >> >>Matthias. > >Matthias, > >I tend to agree with you here. It seems that "chess programs" are more a >function of the "book" rather than the capability of the engine. Yet somewhere, >the engine has to go out of book so why couldn't that be after 14 moves and why >couldn't the SSDF provide a "standard" book for tournaments. Are they >evaluating the engine or the book's author? > >Of course having a "standard" book means nothing if, in fact, the book usage is >embedded in the engine as mentioned by other threads here. Why can't book calls >be a routine separate from the basic engine code. But I don't program engines >so I don't really know. It just seems that the engines performance is skewed >way too far towards the book it uses rather than it's analytical capabilities. > >Steve If you're only interested in analytical capabilities, a match with same book won't work, because pondering scheme, time management, asymetrical eval, etc will make the test worthless. If you only want to test analytical capabilities you'd better use a big test suite, IMO. José C.
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