Author: blass uri
Date: 14:48:13 08/24/98
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On August 24, 1998 at 16:38:37, Mark Young wrote: >I agree. I don’t understand people’s needs to test only the engine. When you >play a chess program, you play the whole program. And in my opinion the opening >play is a big percentage of any programs overall strength. And the sooner we >come to realize this, and stop treating it like an ugly step child, the sooner >we can address this area of chess programming that has been neglected by so >many. I agree the opening play is important but I think that a good program can find the right moves by analysis and not by an opening book. If this is not the case people can get the program out of theory and win because the book cannot have all the lines. It is possible today to get out of book every program by a small number of moves. kasparov did it against deeper blue when he played with black 1.e4 c6 2.d4 d6 This is the reason I believe that books are not very important. I believe there will not be a very big difference between the engine without opening book and the engine with an opening book. I expect the difference in rating to be less than 100 if the program is a good program. Uri
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