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Subject: Re: Some explanations about SmarThink

Author: Drexel,Michael

Date: 04:06:41 06/06/03

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On June 06, 2003 at 06:15:36, Ryan B. wrote:

>Making a strong opening book may not be so high on his to-do list at this time.
>I don?t see how where he is from has anything to do with his opening book.  The
>best of the free programs not named rebel 12 I have seen just generate an
>opening book from pgn files such as gm2600.pgn  This way of making an opening
>book requires no actual chess skill and defiantly in no way discriminates based
>on ones home land.

And such books are definitely weak. The Ruffian book is relatively weak for
example.
A good opening book can only be created if you take the weaknesses of the
program into account. A decent Chessplayer who knows the program very well is
required to make a strong opening book and there are probably many of them in
Russia. Hence my question.

Michael



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