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Subject: Re: computer with no book perform much better than with book?

Author: Jorge Pichard

Date: 06:58:12 10/14/03

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On October 14, 2003 at 08:00:48, emerson tan wrote:

>
>I played a 24 game match between chessmaster9000 default and chessmater9000
>without book with time control of 40 moves in 2 hours and the result was 13.5 to
>10.5 in favor of cm without book. 8 wins for without book and 5 wins for the
>default and 11 draws between them.
>
>Its seems that the one with no book "understands" the position better than the
>one without the book because it calculates from move one therby can follow the
>progress of the position from move one, the computer decides how the position
>progress and it arives in a position that the computer likes and knows how to
>play it. unlike the one with book,it may not know well how to play the position
>after it is out of the opening. that's just my wild way of explaining it, but
>seriously, why did the one without book beat the default one? I was expecting
>the default one to beat the one without books because you can see that from the
>earlt part of the game, the one with book was usually way ahead of of time,
>leaving it much more time to calculate complications in later part of the game.


With everything else being equal (using two computers with equal CPU) the chess
program with a solid Opening Book NOT (an Opening Book created by Players of
chess strength of < less than 2600)should perform at least 30 rating points
higher than the same program without an Opening Book. Now if the Opening Book
was created by games from average players < less than 2300 than today's top
programs should perform better without an Opening Book. My reasoning behind this
is that no top programs without an Opening Book should loose any match against
any player rated < less than 2300.

Pichard



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