Author: stuart taylor
Date: 16:52:06 01/26/04
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On January 26, 2004 at 15:35:24, Reinhard Scharnagl wrote: >On January 26, 2004 at 10:49:02, Jorge Pichard wrote: > >>Since the Opening is NOT that important in FRC and HIARCS is leading, the >>positional understanding of HIARCS is much higher than the rest. There is clear >>indication that with a better opening book, HIARCS could be the leader in SSDF >>as well. > >Well, I have to state something: > >a) in conventional chess engines opening-LIBRARIES are important, because the >engine intelligence will be ignored during the opening. Therefore progresses in >engines' handling of openings hardly would happen. We need good handling of openings in order to study and innovate opening theory. Also, if engine uses intelligence, it can then take opponents engine out of book too, and do better than it. >b) in Fischer Random Chess OPENINGS are very important, because the engines are >forced to think over very new situations (960 possible starting positions). The >existing or missing quality of their detail evaluation functions will become >obvious. > >FRC is a fine drosophila to test evaluation functions and engines, where >traditional engines will not be trusted during the phase of opening. This is a >bad situation not acceptable to me. So I prefer FRC engines - not a surprise. What is this? FRC opening books? > >See also [http://www.rescon.de/Compu/fullchess1_e.html] (ten pages ...) > >Regards, Reinhard.
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