Author: Enrique Irazoqui
Date: 08:32:49 01/06/99
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On January 06, 1999 at 11:12:12, Ulrich Tuerke wrote: >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. It is not happening... and you lost your bet. What was it? :) So far Tiger has played 90 games against 9 opponents with strong and aggressive learners, and it got away with murder (no learner, practically no book). Before entering Tiger and when Christophe told me it had no learner, I thought it would be massacred, but it isn't. Enrique >(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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