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

Author: martin fierz

Date: 02:51:01 09/22/04

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On September 22, 2004 at 05:24:59, Drexel,Michael wrote:

>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

it's definitely not nonsense. i agree that the engine won't find a better (or
the best according to the book), but a weak engine will make real blunders in
the opening while a strong engine might just play a slightly inferior move.
i believe uri is right in that weaker engines profit more from the book.

cheers
  martin





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