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Subject: Re: A good Opening book can make a big difference and here is my experiment

Author: Jorge Pichard

Date: 08:55:16 09/10/04

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On September 10, 2004 at 09:49:41, martin fierz wrote:

>On September 10, 2004 at 09:37:18, Jorge Pichard wrote:
>
>[snip]
>
>>I'm not the only one who post matches in progress.......
>
>just one more thing: you are conducting ONE experiment: how does the opening
>book influence the match result of jonny-movei. you have posted about a zillion
>(ok, i'm exaggerating, i know) intermediate results, with cross-references all
>around. it is very hard to follow such a flood of posts.
>here's a constructive suggestion: wait until you have all matches finished and
>then publish the results:
>
>jonny - movei:
>
>book A: 16-4
>book B: 11-9
>book C: 5-15
>
>that is about all information that is needed. one click, a 10-line-post, and
>that's it, people interested in this experiment will be grateful that they don't
>have to look up all the information in 10 different posts.


Thanks for your suggestion, I will do that once all the matches are finished. I
post the games just in case that the authors of those books like Dr. Waehl wants
to improve on a bad opening line. I still have one more match to conclude my
little experiment. Movei vs Jonny using Andreas Runges opening book.


>i'm not saying that your experiment is useless in itself. the influence of
>opening books is an interesting question. but if you play too little games (and
>it doesn't matter whether that is 10 or 20...) it's just tossing coins...
>
>cheers
>  martin


I believe that 20 games with each opening book is more than sufficient, I can
extend it to 30 games per match if the result is too close, like the first match
Movei versus Jonny (with Harry Schnapp Mainbook.

Jorge



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