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Subject: Re: Next match will be an experiment !

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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