Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 16:11:29 09/06/04
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On September 06, 2004 at 07:43:07, Eydun Lamhauge wrote: >Almost all chess engines today have their own opening book. Is it possible to >say, how many rating points approx. a chess engine with an average opening-book >is stronger than the same chess engine without any opening book? Think about this: You could have a stupendously good opening book that plays perfect chess for 30 full moves. You could have an opening book that plays the worst possible move at every turn. You could have anything in between. Therefore, an opening book will make a chess program play better, play worse, or play the same. After all, that is all that there is.
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