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Subject: Re: Help Request - Creating Comp Killer Opening Books

Author: Mike Taylor

Date: 03:52:13 03/21/04

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On March 20, 2004 at 17:31:27, Dann Corbit wrote:

>On March 20, 2004 at 17:19:24, Mike Taylor wrote:
>
>>
>>Creating a set of chess Opening Books for a chess engine to use against other
>>chess engines seems to be a difficult task, as they think differently than
>>humans.
>>
>>How would u suggest starting to compile such a set of Comp-Killer books ?
>>
>>Where would the best Opening Book download be attained ?
>
>If such a book existed, all the computer programmers would use it in the SSDF
>and in the WMCCC matches.
>
>Probably, the books that come with the programs are about as well as you are
>going to do.

I was thinking if a person gathered several of the top programs together and
aggregated them under CB8 and killed the doubles, this may be a powerful book :)

In addition, downloading the SSDF game in .pgn format and adding them would be a
good start !

Just a thought



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