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Subject: Re: Why does the Chess Genius programs play strong on 486 machines?

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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