Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 12:07:20 07/15/04
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On July 15, 2004 at 14:27:11, Eric Oldre wrote: >On July 15, 2004 at 14:14:34, Uri Blass wrote: > >>On July 15, 2004 at 13:43:01, Jorge Pichard wrote: >> >>>I will do an experiment, how many points do you think that Jonny 2.64 without an >>>opening book can get against Aristarch 4.50 with its opening book? I believe >>>that Aristarch 4.50 will score much more than 13 points against Jonny :-) >> >>I think that a long match when one engine is without opening book is a bad idea >>because the engine with book may repeat the same win again and again. >> >>Uri > >That would seem to apply the same if neither engine had an opening book. >The only time you don't have that possibility is when one of the engines chooses >one of several book moves randomly, which most do i think. > >So it seems to me better to at least have 1 engine randomly choosing an opening >via a book than not having either engine randomizing it's openings. > >Eric Problem Uri was talking about was "book learning". If one has it and uses a book, it will repeat won games. Program without a book has no real defense to that..
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