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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