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

Author: Reinhard Scharnagl

Date: 07:47:11 11/25/03

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On November 25, 2003 at 09:29:06, Mig Greengard wrote:

>On November 25, 2003 at 08:36:03, Omid David Tabibi wrote:

[...]

>This is very much a separate issue, and one I mention in my original message. I
>doubt a technical solution is impossible. For now I'm interested in the
>theoretical argument in favor of books, since they continue to be used
>enthusiastically. Are they just a necessary evil? Or does everyone think they
>can use it to their advantage? Is there no movement to abolish them or limit
>them?

Hi, there is a small but not yet successful proposal (more complete at
[http://www.rescon.de/Compu/schachfair_e.html]):

"The size of a chess engine including its used persistant data has to be limited
on approximately 1/4 MB, based on a strongly compressed form which could be
achieved using high-quality packers. This has different reasons. It is not to
provoke any competition e.g. in hiding pre-compressed components, and also the
choice of a programming language thereby might have less effect on the relevant
measuring size. System DLLs (without any relationship to chess) naturally should
not been taken into account."

Regards, Reinhard.



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