Author: blass uri
Date: 08:52:22 10/20/98
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On October 20, 1998 at 09:45:47, William H Rogers wrote: >How about replaying the games without any opening books. Lets see how strong the >programs real logic really are. If a program is designed well, it can play a >strong game without outside help. >I always thought that opening books are fine for a person who wants to play >certain books to improve their game and in personal use opening books are fine, >but in tourneyments, they should be turned off. >Your example where one program won without leaving its opening book is just not >any indicator of the programs true strength, it only shows that its opening >books were better. The openiong books is part of the program true strength. This example is not an indicator to the programs general positional understanding but it is an indicator to the program true strength. Uri
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