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Subject: Re: Best Opening Book for unified use in a computer tournament

Author: Chuck

Date: 06:43:08 10/22/02

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On October 22, 2002 at 09:14:15, Bob Durrett wrote:

>On October 22, 2002 at 08:31:34, Chuck wrote:
>
[snip]
>
>Summary:
>
>I propose that each chess engine be given the opening book which provides
>optimal performance for that engine.  The chess engine programmers should have
>the final say on which book is to be used by their chess engine.
>
>Bob D.

My reply to this is that I would like to agree, but there is a large difference
in the quality of some of the books. Also, some engine books give the appearance
the author has "booked up" against other engines. All this skews the ability to
distinguish which engine actually does a better job of evaluation.

Key point:

In order to be fair, the assumption should be made that we want to assess an
engines ability to evaluate chess as a whole, and not merely the subset of the
game which it's author feels it evaluates well.

Regards,

Chuck



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