Author: Amir Ban
Date: 00:59:53 09/10/98
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On September 09, 1998 at 17:58:58, Serge Desmarais wrote: >On September 09, 1998 at 09:34:07, Amir Ban wrote: > >>> >>>I think Crafty uses a similar process and I think I remember Robert Hyatt saying >>> that Chessbase kind of "copied" Crafty's book learning for Fritz. >>> >>>Serge Desmarais >> >> >>What you describe here sounds pretty accurate, but is not what is called "book >>learning". "Book engineering" sounds more accurate to me. Perhaps the Fritz book >>learning came from Crafty, but not this. >> >>To my knowledge, no one has been as methodical in the automatic generation of >>books, or put it on such a sound logical basis (as you describe) as ChessBase. >>They should be allowed the credit for that. >> >>Amir > > >I was not criticizing Chessbase. I think their book concept is very good, >finding all the possible transpositions. It is also good for me to learn about >ideas in the opening stage, improving what I did play in the past in specific >positions (and the scoring stats are very interesting too). > > >Serge Desmarais I did not think you were criticizing ChessBase, but you appeared to give credit for all this to crafty which to my knowledge it doesn't deserve. Amir
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