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Subject: Re: Has anyone run a no book/engame table tournament?

Author: KIRK SEARS

Date: 18:35:01 04/12/03

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Me too. I was also interested in how more positional engines like Gromit would
fare

On April 12, 2003 at 21:19:19, Russell Reagan wrote:

>On April 12, 2003 at 15:30:36, KIRK SEARS wrote:
>
>>Has anyone run a no book/engame tablebase tournament? This would be a very good
>>test for Winboard engines.  I wonder how many would play even this way?
>>
>>On a previous response it was mentioned that someone might have done this.
>
>I would also like to see a tournament like this. I would be interested to see
>how some of the strong amateur engines fair against commercial engines when they
>don't use a book or EGTB's. Some, like Vincent, believe that Ruffian is stronger
>than Fritz in this situation (no opening books).



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