Author: Moritz Berger
Date: 05:10:14 09/12/98
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On September 11, 1998 at 17:37:48, Serge Desmarais wrote: >On September 11, 1998 at 06:25:27, Moritz Berger wrote: > >> >>>You surprise me, here, when you say that Fritz plays opening moves with ONE >>>occurence! On my computer, all the moves that are unique get a 0% chance of >>>being played. Of course, if all the moves in a given position were played less >>>than 10 times, that is another story. Did you set your parameters for Fritz to >>>play a greater diversity of moves than the default settings? >>> >>> >>>Serge Desmarais >> >>Try it yourself: Open tree F11, follow the most popular move until one game >>remains, click "move now" button, Fritz will display "in book" in the "seach >>info display" and play the book line until the end. >> >>Moritz > > But that is another story! If ONLY ONE move is in book for a given position, >it has no choice but to play it. But up to there, it must be a move that won the >game. Do you think it should start "thinking" when only ONE game is listed for >the only move given or for all the available move? That would be an interesting >idea. Personnally, I think that Fritz should ADD the first move played by its >opponent that is not in its book and also should start thinking if the results >obtained by itself when playing all the available moves (or the unique move) >weren't good. Of course, not based on blitz games, but on games of 1 hour/mate >AT LEAST, or based on a certain minimum depth reached. It could also add its own >reply in the book. > > >Serge Desmarais I think that Ed's EOC concept looks better (where the book is a mere guidance for the engine, but needs to be confirmed by calculation). If the engine gets more "sceptical" about the book the fewer reference game exist for a given move, this seems to be a good way to avoid extreme evals after leaving book (maybe still playing hand-selected sharp lines, gambits etc.). Moritz
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