Author: scott farrell
Date: 06:59:00 11/28/02
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one other thing I play with time to time, is to let my program choose from the book moves. The idea is to pick the first few moves of the game semi random based on weighted stats and etc. Then afer that you pick the best few moves from the book based on stats, and use that as you move list from root, as if those were the only legal moves. I give my program a smaller allotment of time, as theorically, it cant make a bad choice. This way, you wont walk into any openings your program cant understand in the given time limits, or walk into any blunders that are in your book (it does happen). I found when my program "didnt understand" the opening, when it was out of book the score was artifically low, becuase it didnt understand what the the original GM was trying to do, so its initial move (or 2) is to deconstruct the opening. ie. move you bishop back from say g6 to somewhere safer, or more subtle, it finds itself in the middle of a gambit, and tries to save the piece instead, or does not capitalize on the temp etc etc etc .... not good. Scott
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