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Subject: Re: A personal thought regarding the opening books

Author: Omid David Tabibi

Date: 05:11:15 01/28/03

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On January 28, 2003 at 08:05:57, Omid David Tabibi wrote:

>As someone mentioned after the game, it is hard to imagine Junior losing in just
>27 moves, had it not used the opening book. Today, the top programs already play
>in a super-Grandmaster level (well, that doesn't include Kasparov of course), so
>why should they blindly play variations played by players weaker than them?
>
>Of course, turning the opening books off totally is not a viable option, as the
>programs still don't have the needed strategic vision to find their way early in
>the opening phase. But maybe a stricter limit (depending on type of opening,
>games played, statistics, etc) should be imposed for choosing moves right out of
>the opening book.
>
>Omid.

One idea can be: play a move from the opening book only if played by someone
with a rating higher than you (with statistically sound results in this line).
So maybe in our future opening books we will have to also add the average rating
of the players of each move...



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