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Subject: Re: Custom Oppening book

Author: Sean Empey

Date: 13:04:25 07/16/04

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On July 16, 2004 at 15:54:01, Dann Corbit wrote:

>On July 16, 2004 at 15:19:07, Sean Empey wrote:
>
>>I am curious about having a custom opening book built. Any suggestions on how to
>>persue this? Money is not a limitation as I have corporate sponsorhip. Although
>>I don't want to spend the entire sponsorship money on the book.
>>
>>Thanks in advance for your help and advice.
>
>There are professional bookbuilders who will do the best.  They are very
>familiar with the lines in ECO, NCO, MCO, etc. and will not produce a book with
>a great deal of blunders in it.
>
>Every automatic book (computer generated) will either have stupendous mistakes
>here and there, or be too narrow in other cases.
>
>However, a statistically generated book could be easily improved over time via
>sophisticated statistical learning.

How does one find a professional book builder? Track down a GM/IM?

I'll look into the sophisticated statistical learning angle.

Thanks for the help as usuall.

-Sean



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