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Subject: Re: Effect of books, round 1

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 12:53:31 08/26/02

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On August 25, 2002 at 20:14:09, Peter Kappler wrote:
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>Yes, I have noticed this effect, too.  IMO, most amateur engines (even the
>stronger ones like Sjeng) make enough middlegame and endgame mistakes that games
>are rarely won because of small opening advantages.
>
>Would be interesting to test this theory by repeating your experiment with
>weaker amateur programs, and some top commercial programs, too.

I think it would be a lot more interesting to repeat the experiment at slower
time control.  It will take twice as many games to extract the same information
from a different engine also (you will need a control group to normalize).

At fast speeds, the engine that commits the fewest serious blunders wins.  At
fast enough time control, it basically becomes a random number generator.

A rematch under the same conditions but at G/90 will bear out whether I am full
of bologa or not.



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