Author: Chessfun
Date: 04:32:36 01/18/04
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On January 18, 2004 at 07:25:32, Uri Blass wrote: >On January 18, 2004 at 05:46:05, Sandro Necchi wrote: > >>Hi, >> >>this is interesting, but testing one program against another one giving selected >>positions does not give a true figure of the programs strenght, in my opinion. > >I think that a lot of readers are interested in this kind of test without >opening books. > >Programs are used to analyze positions and if you have a correspondence game and >you want to use the best program to analyze then testers who use some random >positions give better information than testers who use the opening books. > >Uri Although I agree with Sandro, and also prefer to see matches using the correct opening books naturally there are cases when opening books mean nothing. And as you say many are interested in results without books or some other book. IMO as I've stated previously this is due to _some_ of those people not owning the correct opening book. Obviously this does not refer to all. Sarah.
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