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

Author: martin fierz

Date: 03:58:33 09/22/04

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On September 22, 2004 at 05:56:02, Vikrant Malvankar wrote:

>It is not a benefit for a weak engine as it will also probably play weak moves
>in the middlegame which will be properly exploited by the stronger engine. Dont
>u think so.

it's not the issue whether a strong engine will beat a weak engine. that is so
by definition :-)

the question is: take 2 engines of approximately equal playing strength, give
one of them a good book, and look what happens in a match.

i believe that for 2 weak engines the difference will be larger in the match
result than for 2 strong engines.

now we only need somebody to test this hypothesis :-)

cheers
  martin



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