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Subject: Re: solution to the contoversy of opening books

Author: margolies,marc

Date: 11:34:13 11/02/03

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i have two points to make.
1) g-c p. is correct because a fair tournament is not held on one machine
anyway. this is because of resource allocation issues. and while we can produce
verifiable rsults in engine-engine matches on a single machine those results are
not reflective of the same engine alone on the machine playing-- that is what
most users want to find out.
2) if chessmaster's engine suffers without its own book under the cb interface
for a single machine match, then I say "so what?" chessmaster gui is rigged
intentionally to use another engines resources during a same machine match and
no honest td would allow it to function as such in a engine-engine single
machine match. Therefore any handicap the engine suffers is a result of the
designer's cheating, not the tournament director's.
as a corollary, do we know much about the tuning involved in chessmaster's book,
if there is any?


On November 02, 2003 at 14:06:12, Rajen Gupta wrote:

>On November 02, 2003 at 13:58:20, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:
>
>>On November 02, 2003 at 13:45:53, Rajen Gupta wrote:
>>
>>>that is the only equiatble solution that i can think of given the contraints in
>>>this situation
>>
>>The solution is much much simpeler: let the King use it's own book and learner.
>>
>>--
>>GCP
>
>the king does not have its own opening book which can be used in the chessbase
>interface:
>
>the producers of the chessmaster did not ask for a learn function hence it was
>not implemented (my understanding is that some of the freeware engines such as
>ruffian have in fact been tested with the winboard or uci interface which means
>that they dont use their own learn function; no one protested at that time! as
>far as i know (from chris theron's postings)the learn function is a function of
>the GUI rather than that of the actual engine



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