Author: Harald Faber
Date: 06:29:36 12/11/98
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On December 11, 1998 at 09:25:44, Dan Kiski wrote: >>>>>The only difference between the Cm6555 setting and the ones of the CM-Faber one >>>>>is that CM6555 uses the CM6000 opening book and the CM-faber one uses the Mentor >>>>>book. Apart from that they are the same in every way. >>>Therefore the cm6000 book has so far performed better than the mentor.obk since >>>that is the only difference between the two settings. That is interesting since >>>mentor.obk is deeper than cm6000.obk, i guess cm6000.obk is mostly mainlines >>>while mentor.obk plays other not so viable lines?. >> >>But this doesn't explain it clearly. The Nunn test is constructed so that the >>programs/players start at these positions WITHOUT further use of opening books >>so it should make no difference if you "use" mentor or cm6k.obk because they >>should be disabled. The reason for this discrepancy CAN be that they were not >>disabled. >> >I agree as far as the nunn test goes, but my understanding is that he is not >using the nunn test but is using the opening books as stated, one using cm6k.obk >and the other using mentor.obk. OK, then I would understand; however this is very confusing here to again find out who plays which tourney...
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