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Subject: Re: Why use opening books in machine-machine competitions?

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 03:27:59 11/25/03

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On November 25, 2003 at 05:33:17, Claude Le Page wrote:

>Hello Uri!
>I think you are right about Nunn-style tournaments ; but why do you request that
>positions are not known in advance? the only difference is that with known
>positions it becomes a thematic tournament; why not?


Thematic tournaments may be good for programmers to test programs but they
cannot be done in important tournaments like ssdf because if the positions are
known then programmers may hide an opening book to cover holes in the program.

Uri



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