Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 10:11:03 11/03/03
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On November 03, 2003 at 01:58:47, Johan de Koning wrote:
>On November 02, 2003 at 16:32:41, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:
>
>>On November 02, 2003 at 15:03:57, Rajen Gupta wrote:
>>
>>>for some reason the programmers claim that the use of a non optimised opening
>>>book which belongs to no programme in particular would give theKING an unfair
>>>advantage (after drumming it into our heads all these years that an engine can
>>>only do well if it has its own opening book);
>>
>>There are two issues:
>>
>>a) how good is a book on its intrisic value (how many good and bad lines
>>does it contain)
>>b) how good is the book tuned to the specific playing style of an engine
>
>c) how good is the book tuned against specific opponents.
>
>>Getting both a) and b) right takes a significant time and effort investment.
>>Getting (a) right gives you an advantage. Getting b) right gives you an
>>additional advantage.
>
>The set-up is listed.
>For unlisted set-ups please see the various tournaments (c).
>
>>The King was given a) even though it did nothing to deserve that.
>
>Deserve?!
>Is it a religuous thing now?
>
>... Johan
What about sending the CM9000 book to the SSDF in a suitable format for their
test?
Is it really hard to do?
You can stop this discussion right away by doing this.
I think it would be a nice move.
Christophe
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