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Subject: Re: Some explanations about SmarThink

Author: Kurt Utzinger

Date: 12:16:51 06/06/03

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On June 06, 2003 at 07:54:07, Uri Blass wrote:

>On June 06, 2003 at 07:06:41, Drexel,Michael wrote:
>
>>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.
>
>Ruffian book seems to be very good based on Ruffian results in Leo tournament.
>Uri

     From our tests with Ruffian 1.0.1 UCI under
     Fritz-GUI, we would say that the book of
     Ruffian is a good one. The program scores
     always better with its own book in comparison
     when we used the remis.ctg.
     Kurt



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