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Subject: Re: Books with no GM input ..vs.. Books with GM input.

Author: David Mitchell

Date: 07:44:18 07/01/04

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On July 01, 2004 at 09:55:16, francis wrote:

>if you get several top programs to play each other with empty opening books. but
>with book learning on, then there will be no human input.
>
>get them to play thousands of games against each other - and what happens?

After a *great deal* of time, you'll wind up with inferior book lines. Many such
lines run 20 moves/40 plies deep, and the strategic concepts extending beyond
that, are unclear to computer programs. Such lines are frequently culled from
the programs book, of course, by the programmer / bookmaker.

Yes, something reasonable can be made, automatically thru game playing, but the
final result takes a very long time, and is not very high quality.

Dave





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