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Subject: Re: The opening book is extreamly important for a chess engine.....Jorge....

Author: Drexel,Michael

Date: 02:24:59 09/22/04

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On September 22, 2004 at 04:32:02, Uri Blass wrote:

>On September 22, 2004 at 04:00:18, WAEL  DEEB wrote:
>
>>...is proving it with his fantastic book oriented tournaments!
>
>If the engine is strong enough to find better moves by itself then opening book
>is not needed.
>
>This is a good reason to try to develop stronger engines instead of working on
>opening books because when the engine get stronger the opening book problem will
>be solved automatically because the engine is not going to need a book to avoid
>blunders.
>
>Uri

That´s just nonsense. No engine is strong enough to find generally better moves
by itself. Won´t change in the next 10 years at least IMHO.

Michael



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