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Subject: Re: CM6K Cummings Tournament Result (In Progress)

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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