Author: Jeff Anderson
Date: 19:07:09 01/21/99
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What practical value will this have? Computers have opening books, in part, because they play a mediocre opening without them. Have any interesting discoveries been made yet? I think it would be interesting to have computers perfor a full blunder check of every ECO line. Before it was done I'd bet the evaluation of many lines would be changed. Jeff On January 21, 1999 at 18:39:00, Dann Corbit wrote: >The OrAnG UtAn project has been completed. About 130,000 EPD rows were >analyzed at 12 minutes of PII 300Mhz CPU equivalent time two or more times. >This basically includes every 1. b4 game played in a public tournament and >many others besides. In three months, the data will become public domain. > >The Apocalypse project is well along and the Heartwood project is underway. >We are receiving more and more requests for information, and the project is >starting to pick up steam. The Apocalypse project is turning up some pretty >stunning data. A surprising number of best move solutions from well known >test sets are just plain wrong! An even greater number have what appears to >be an equally good alternative move. This data from Project Heartwood is >going to be very important, I predict. Any opening book used by a computer >that does not incorporate this information will be vastly inferior to those >that do. As a result, I suspect that *all* computer programs that play chess >will eventually incorporate this information. Ether that or they will lose a >lot to those that do. The data will be equally important to computer chess >database systems. > >One ultimate goal of the project is to create a public domain SQL database >that will allow advanced studies into the game. Curious? Read the C.A.P. >FAQ: >ftp://38.168.214.175/pub/Chess%20Analysis%20Project%20FAQ.htm >-- >C.A.P. Newsgroup http://www.dejanews.com/~c_a_p >Chess Data: ftp://38.168.214.175/pub/
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