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

Author: Vasik Rajlich

Date: 06:49:30 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

It's already the case. The top engines, on top hardware, play better than the
deeper lines in their opening books.

Take a look at the Shredder-Hydra match. Every game, Shredder's opening book was
deeper than Hydra's. It was just suicide.

Vas



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