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Subject: Re: Book vs. Engine

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 06:53:15 08/26/02

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On August 26, 2002 at 09:43:08, Andreas Guettinger wrote:

>>>
>>>I agree, but Kramnik will possibly do this against Fritz, as is the case in any
>>>human-computer match.
>>
>>This is the reason that the interesting match is kasparov-Junior and not
>>kramnik-Fritz.
>>
>>Uri
>
>I possibly mixed things up a bit. What i meant are computer-human tournaments.
>The program should have the same possibilities as the humans have.
>
>In SSDF play things are different. Either you allow the engines personal book
>(and don't tell me the commercial engines contain no killer moves) what causes
>inflation in the Elo list, provide a general book (that doesn't origin from a
>special engine) like I would do it, or make them use no books at all (would be
>interesting, too).
>
>- Andy

It is impossible to give them no book because in that case programmers may
try to hide the book.

I think that generating a list when the sides start from some random position
may be interesting.

Uri



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