Author: Serge Desmarais
Date: 18:28:19 09/10/98
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On September 10, 1998 at 03:59:53, Amir Ban wrote: >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 I agree that using the word "copied" was not a good choice. I should have said INSPIRED, maybe? Anyway, human knowledge has always been improved because the newer generation was inspiring itself on what the preceeding ones did before. That is how we got from the wheel and pottery to the Pentium II 450 MHz (to shorten the story! hehehe). Serge Desmarais
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