Author: Bob Durrett
Date: 09:51:13 11/10/02
Generally, the opening books appear to have been designed to give the engine the best possible advantage against the strongest opposition. However, there are many chess-playing programs out there. I am not familiar with most of them and do not know what they all have to offer for chess amateurs. Intuitively, it seems to me that a chess-playing program would be most useful to the chess amateur if the engine were to use an opening book designed specifically for that purpose. How do the engines select their opening moves when "dumbed-down" to play at the amateur level? I suspect that they use the same opening book used against GMs. Do they? There are many openings which could be played against amateurs but not suitable against strong players. Typically, they would give the engine, playing White, just equality or worse, and might give the engine, playing Black, a slight disadvantage. To generalize, an opening book to be used for training of a weak player might be inappropriate for strong players and visa versa. There might ought to be several different books to cover the wide performance range from beginner to Kasparov. All of the opening books could be combined into a single opening book but with a different set of move probabilities for each performance level. Do any of the programs do that now? If not, does this look doable? Will it happen? P.S. I'm still focussed on the future widespread use of chess-playing programs as training tools for ALL human [and learning engine?] users of the software. Bob D.
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