Author: Robert Henry Durrett
Date: 16:16:58 09/08/98
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On September 08, 1998 at 12:24:07, Don Dailey wrote: <snip> >I think it is still fundamentally superior to the other programs. It >may not actually be the very strongest currently, but this may be because >Richard has not made any substantial effort to stay ahead and I also >don't think the book is engineered as well as the top contenders, which >could be a big part of the reason his program is not dominant right >at the moment. > >- Don Your observation that you don't think "the book is engineered as well as the top contenders" sounds like an interesting concept. I get the impression that playing Genius with the Fritz book would not completely null out the Fritz advantage because, I assume, the Fritz book is "engineered" for Fritz. I presume that this means that the Fritz book lines are selected to optimize Fritz performance by covering up specific weaknesses of Fritz and capitalizing on specific strengths of Fritz. If this were so, then forcing Genius to use the Fritz book would not be optimum for Genius because Genius's specific weaknesses and strengths might be different from those of Fritz. If the above is an accurate portraial of what you meant by the book being "engineered," then forcing Fritz to play with the Genius book would be equally non-ideal. I wonder if a match between Genius and Fritz, with Fritz being forced to use the Genius book would result in more equality in the win/loss/draw results of such a match. In other words, if the problem were primarily one of book engineering, such a match would point this out. Am I anywhere near close to what you were thinking?
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