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Subject: Re: 1.d4 d5 2.c4 without book?

Author: Komputer Korner

Date: 10:35:04 10/05/98

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On October 02, 1998 at 04:12:21, Ed Schröder wrote:

>>>If I set the Pawn/square value for c4 high enough, KnightCap will play
>>>c4 without an opening book :-)
>
>>Of course, every program can do this, but that's not what I wanted to know. What
>>I meant was which program plays the queens gambit without book, without weird
>>tuned piece square tables and without learning data (Ed, I think you use the
>>database information for tuning the piece square tables, too, or are you doing
>>some more sophisticated with it?), and - maybe this is the main point - _not_
>>because it can get back the pawn with Qa4+.
>
>Hi Steffen,
>
>I don't use the piece-square tables to make Rebel play 2.c4
>
>I have made a chess tree from a good database. Rebel consults the chess tree and
>finds for 2.c4 a good score (say 55%) in (say 4000) games with an average elo of
>(say) 2400.
>
>Based on this data I add a "flexible" bonus to 2.c4
>
>The bonus can vary from -1.00 to +1.00
>
>Rebel gives the following information:
>
>Move    %   Games   Bonus
>2.c4   58% 17.806   +0.52
>2.Nf3  55%  6.775   +0.23
>2.e4   60%    379   +0.25
>2.Bg5  59%    299   +0.25
>
>So based on the chess tree a 0.52 bonus is added to 2.c4 which will force
>Rebel to play the move.
>
>- Ed -
>
>
>>Greetings,
>>Steffen.


Ed I assume that the bonus is derived from some combination of the number of
games plus the score %. Can you tell us the exact equation?
--
Komputer Korner



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