Author: Omid David Tabibi
Date: 10:48:30 11/03/03
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On November 03, 2003 at 13:11:03, Christophe Theron wrote: >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? > Assuming that the SSDF will test using only the ChessBase GUI, and that CM9000 can't use its book out of its own GUI, it is really a hard thing to do. I have created Falcon's book manually in ChessBase's ctg format, but I don't think there is any easy way to convert an already existing book to ctg format. BTW, falcon.ctg is Falcon's only book, i.e., Falcon can't use an opening book outside ChessBase GUI for now. Unless I find a better alternative, in Graz I will have to run my engine as a UCI engine under ChessBase... > >You can stop this discussion right away by doing this. > >I think it would be a nice move. > > > > Christophe
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