Author: Ulrich Tuerke
Date: 08:12:12 01/06/99
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On January 06, 1999 at 10:58:44, Enrique Irazoqui wrote: >Someone posted yesterday that opening books ae more important than engines in >order to score well in comp-comp games. I think it's precisely the other way >around. An example: in the first game Tiger-Genius6, Tiger was out of book after >1.d4 e6 while G6 stayed in book for 8 moves, and in spite of this Tiger managed >to win very convincingly. More often than not, Tiger is out of book after 2 or 3 >moves. Maybe this is a valid approach against cooks and learners: no book and no >learner (and a very strong engine). :) (half a joke) I think this should be fully a joke. Of course, a prog with a very small book will very painfully react on book preparations by the opponent (manually or automatically) because its replies can be predicted by playing a few games. I'd bet that even a very strong engine like Tiger will suffer in this case heavily against a strong book learner when playing a few dozen games. (However, Tiger might very well dominate a considerably weaker learner, because the learning won't work in case the learner can't score at all.) Uli
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