Author: Uri Blass
Date: 09:11:52 10/13/04
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On October 13, 2004 at 06:32:40, Daniel Clausen wrote: >On October 13, 2004 at 06:06:52, emerson tan wrote: > >>Since computers can play much better than humans, > >[insert proof here] > > >> the next team humans versus >>team computers, computers should not use opening books. > >Many engines are designed in a way that they _depend_ on an opening book. That >is, they don't have the necessary eval-terms to play a very good opening on >their own. (similarly, engines which are programmed with EGTB in mind, don't >have knowledge to play KPK endgames etc) I think that in that case it is easy to beat them by getting out of the opening book. I think that search is underestimated here and programs do not need special knowledge about the opening because if they search deep enough their search gets into the middle game. Uri
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