Author: Drexel,Michael
Date: 16:03:52 09/22/04
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On September 22, 2004 at 12:28:57, Uri Blass wrote: >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 > >1)I do not think that you can predict what is going to happen in the next 10 >years. Why not? > >2)Even if an engine is strong enough to find better moves in part of the cases >and worse moves in another part of the cases then it still can play better >without opening book in part of the cases. The point is any engine will play much more often worse moves than better moves. So it should play clearly weaker on average without book. I only talk about quality opening books. Not about opening books generated from game databases. A quality opening book has ideally only moves that are considered to be sound by latest opening theory (Informator,NIC and other serious publications). Michael > >Uri
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