Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 18:52:17 09/06/02
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On September 06, 2002 at 20:40:45, Dave Gomboc wrote:
[SNIP]
>Uri realises that he can discover weaknesses in his chess engine by examining
>the moves it plays. If some of those moves are opening moves, what's wrong with
>that? Not playing with an opening book gives him more chances to see his chess
>engine go wrong, and consequently more opportunities to improve it.
Not still if it still happens, but at one point {I seem to remember} Crafty
would analyze the book moves for a fraction of the play time of a normal move
(about 10% if I recall correctly) just to ensure that the book move wasn't a
horrible blunder.
Eventually, opening books will be moot, because the computers will think deeply
enough to render them useless. Probably a few years away yet. But if (for
instance) you can see clearly 20 plies away, it is probably foolishness to trust
in the choices given by a human created opening book. The machine estimations
will be better.
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