Author: John Rice
Date: 14:20:14 02/01/03
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On February 01, 2003 at 17:11:10, Drexel,Michael wrote: >On February 01, 2003 at 16:34:07, John Rice wrote: > >>I just noticed this new book option called "Up to move" (default set to 35 >>moves). Not sure if it started with the 23 December Gui update, or the 30 >>January update that I just installed. But either way, it seems to offer a way to >>limit/restrict the book openings by maximum number of moves. Any thoughts on >>this new option? >>Seems to me like a handy way to reduce the number of draws caused by very long >>opening books. Just limit the opening moves to 15 or so, and let the >>engine/hardware take over. > >A new option, and a good one. it is not necessary to create special books now. >You can do engine tournaments with a common book like Fritz8.ctg and limit the >moves to 5 or 6. >The engines wont play openings like 1.e4 d5 2.exd5 Qxd5 3.Sc3 Qe6+ and they >would vary. What would happen in a game on playchess between two computers that had different settings? For example, one set-up was at 5 or 6 moves max for the opening, and the other set-up had no limit in the number of opening book moves.
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