Author: blass uri
Date: 04:45:14 08/21/98
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On August 21, 1998 at 06:55:45, Amir Ban wrote: >On August 20, 1998 at 23:10:34, blass uri wrote: > >>I want to know if the book of Junior that I have(with the same probabilities) is >>identical to the book that was used in paris. >> > >Yes, but I interfered with the choices (in a legal way). > > >>If the answer is positive then Junior was lucky not to do a draw against a weak >>opponent like it did in the last round against chesstiger11.2. >> > >"Lucky" is an exaggeration. This is a rare occurrence. > > >>I think it is better to use books with probabilities of only 0 or 1 in events >>like paris. >> >>did Junior decide to play 1...e5 against fritz5 in the last round because of the >>opponent(In the other games it played 1...c5) or maybe it did not like to play >>1...c5 because of the only game it lost against virtualchess. >> > >I wanted to play the Spanish against Fritz. I wanted to play it against Shredder >too. Both did not cooperate. You are right that after Virtual (and Eugen) I >didn't want to see the Sicilian again as black. In the blitz, I let the regular >book play. The only game I lost in the blitz, against Nimzo, was you guessed it >a Sicilian as black. > >I don't believe much in books, and I think their importance is limited. I know >that this is a minority opinion. Books are not important if a program has good understanding of the early stage of the opening. It is interesting to see the results of a version without a book to see the value of books. Is there a version without a book that play in ICC or another tournament in order to see the difference in the elo between a version with a book and without a book? Uri > >Amir
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