Author: Steve Coladonato
Date: 04:08:52 07/16/04
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I tend to agree with you and have posted previously on this subject. The book is human not engine. You will see comments about the recent WCCC match and see where so and so had an inferior position out of book. I have suggested in the past that to truly test the engine, the books should be the same and even suggested a book depth of between 12 and 20 moves (24-40 ply). In the past, before Shredder was Chessbase, I felt that Stefan Meyer-Kahlen's algorithms or heuristics were a bit better than the competition (I haven't followed Shredder very much since it was acquired). Today, I believe the improvements in the performance of the engines is mainly attributed to the hardware not anything the programmers have done. The AI engine that Steve Edwards is working on has perked my interest. Steve
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