Author: Sune Fischer
Date: 07:14:23 11/28/02
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On November 28, 2002 at 09:59:00, scott farrell wrote: >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. I am doing this precalculated, right now in fact. I have 2.5 GHz crunching on my old book, it's sorting good from bad lines, so I don't have to waste valuable time during a game :) The lines may not be bad objectively, but if the program considers them bad, then I think they are better off not being played. Need a good book for CCT5, hehe. -S. >Scott
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