Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 16:55:14 08/30/02
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On August 30, 2002 at 19:41:54, Roy Brunjes wrote: >With this kind of data ... makes you wonder how much of any of the top program >performances (i.e. ratings) in the SSDF are related much more to opening book >than the engines themselves. > >How much progress over the last 5 years is due more to opening book improvements >than engine improvements? It is probably not possible to tell, but it makes me >wonder ... Put another [somewhat perpendicular] way: How much of the genius of current chess Super-GM's is due to rote memorization of opening theory? If the players of old had the same data at their disposal and a couple years to study, would they be better than the current crop?
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