Author: Dan Homan
Date: 05:55:50 08/21/98
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On August 21, 1998 at 07:58:21, Robert Henry Durrett wrote: >There have been quite a few threads this month dealing with test positions which >test verious aspects of the software. > >But there is one question about the software which nobody seems to want to >mention: Why do the chess engines have trouble with the initial position where >no pieces have been moved yet? [Position at the start of all chess games] > >If the programs can be "tweaked" so that they play good openings, then all of >the opening books will become unnecessary! > >Why not work on the "initial position" and get the programs to find the best >move for that position? I think that playing a good opening is a very hard problem with a very easy solution... just build a quality opening book. I this is why some programs haven't been "tweaked" to play good openings without a book... (I think that my program will default to something like the '4-knights defense' without it's opening book - solid development, but not exactly exciting chess :) Even if programmers did tweak their programs for quality play in the opening (without a book), they would still use a book because of the great potential savings on the clock. I agree that it would be nice to have a program with a strong evaluation of opening positions. (Some programs may have this... I don't know, as I don't use them this way). - Dan
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