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

Author: gerold daniels

Date: 15:22:18 09/22/04

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On September 22, 2004 at 06:58:33, martin fierz wrote:

>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
hi martin .. i think jorge is working hard to prove the point that a weaker
engine can do better with a good book.good luck gerold.



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