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

Author: martin fierz

Date: 03:56:45 09/22/04

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>>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.
>
>Strong engines don“t just play slightly inferior moves in the opening.
>They play often complete nonsense without book.
>I think we have discussed enough examples here in the past.

of course - but you are guilty of selective perception. you have noted the
examples discussed here. if you took 1000 opening positions from somewhere, and
looked which moves GMs play, i believe that strong engines would play the same
moves very often (ie. 80-95%). weak engines on the other hand...

cheers
  martin



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