Author: Dan Honeycutt
Date: 01:01:42 05/15/04
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On May 15, 2004 at 03:36:07, Thorsten Czub wrote: >On May 15, 2004 at 02:00:40, Dan Honeycutt wrote: > >>I'm confused Thorsten. you say in the thread below: >> >>"i am playing with a special style, and a small book, with imported openings >>from old times." > >yes. this is how CSTal plays ! >s8 plays with the book that comes with the cd set on optimal. > >>If Shredder is playing with optimal book (plus learning) and CSTal is playing >>with the small book with old openings that doesn't seem fair. >> >>Dan H. > >if i would let CSTal play with its BIG BOOK the games would be 30 moves each >playing from their books. > >this is not what i am interested. I want to see BOTH engines calculate EARLY >from the beginning. > >If i would change S8 booking, the people would complain (they complain ANYWAY >:-)) > >but it is IMO ok to let CSTal play with a small book. > >Due to this small book it often throws S8 out of the big s8 book. > >IMO this is ok. and as you can see it normally plays good. >in game 3 the opening was lousy indeed. but thats the risk if you play with a >small book. That makes sense. I'd make Shredder play also with a small book, but if the CSTal small book knocks Shredder out of it's big book then that does the about the same thing. Dan H.
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