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Subject: Re: Technical question regarding interface for CCT

Author: Omid David Tabibi

Date: 12:10:04 12/12/03

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On December 12, 2003 at 13:54:27, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On December 12, 2003 at 12:42:17, Omid David Tabibi wrote:
>
>>On December 12, 2003 at 11:24:26, Georg v. Zimmermann wrote:
>>
>>>Exactly, and thats why you should write your own book routine, instead of using
>>>part of a commercial package.
>>
>>I don't see any problems with this. By using the opening book feature of Fritz
>>or Shredder, you are merely avoiding a waste of time on something already
>>implemented. The big issue is hand tuning the created book, which makes the
>>difference between shredder.bok and falcon.bok :)
>
>You are overlooking the difficulty of choosing a book line also.  There are
>lots of things to consider.  How often it was played, how did the side on
>move do in the resulting games, how recent was the opening played or is it an
>old move that might have a refutation, etc.
>
>I've written book code.  It takes a lot of time.  Not to mention the
>learning facilities that you get for free with the Fritz GUI.  Which is
>yet another important piece of code that you get to avoid writing.
>

You can similarly argue that everyone should write his own endgame tablebases.
As it also takes a lot of time, and is much harder than opening book.



>
>>
>>
>>>
>>>Georg
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>>I totally disagree with you about this. IMO opening book is one of the most
>>>>important parts of the program. Look at the games in Graz, many games were
>>>>already decided after the opening phase...
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>Uri



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