Author: Roberto Nerici
Date: 08:52:27 12/17/03
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On December 17, 2003 at 09:35:16, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On December 17, 2003 at 09:05:55, Slater Wold wrote: > >>I guess I will be running the 100:1 NPS challenge. Here's the info: >> >> >>I will use any books.bin & bookc.bin that Bob asks me to. The book.bin will be >>created from enormous.pgn. > >My suggestion is to use book.bin, bookc.bin and books.bin from my ftp >machine. book.bin has no learning data so it will start off in the best >possible way. > >remove position.bin before game 1. > >And, as I suggested previously, if, after a program leaves book, it is >in an obviously won or lost position, the game gets aborted and the next >one started. There is no place for "book kills" when the goal is a time >handicap match. I'm sympathetic to this idea but how do we objectively decide if a position is "obviously" won or lost from the book? Some book lines may lead to a clear advantage for one side, many will be pretty even, but surely there are bound to be positions in which one side has what some think are marginal advantages and some think are major. Amir did suggest starting from symmetric positions, which does avoid this problem (even if it isn't a good reflection of real openings). Roberto/.
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