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Subject: Re: Arena Opening Books should NOT have more than 10 moves..............

Author: Jorge Pichard

Date: 11:43:27 09/08/04

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On September 08, 2004 at 13:35:15, Jorge Pichard wrote:

>On September 08, 2004 at 10:09:38, Olivier Deville wrote:
>
>>On September 08, 2004 at 09:44:02, Jorge Pichard wrote:
>>
>>>The final match of the Arena 4 main Opening Books just started between
>>>o-deville versus Andreas Runge opening book.
>>
>>I bet Andreas will crush me... but let's see what happens !
>>
>>Olivier
>
>Your o-deville little opening book with short lines is winning, it could be that
>long variations of over 8 moves gets engines into positions that they don't
>understand, therefore, instead of helping it defeat the purpose. My conclusion
>from this experiment is that shortest opening lines from grandmaster games is
>more beneficial than opening lines with 12 moves or longer. The only way that it
>could help a particular Engine is if the opening after 8 grandmaster moves is
>fully analyzed by that engines in detail, and only variations found by that
>engines could be added to maximize its own opening.
>
>Ruffian 1.01 is using 0-deville and Ruffian 1.05 is using the Andreas Runge
>opening book.
>



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