Author: John Merlino
Date: 17:01:46 02/14/05
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On February 14, 2005 at 19:23:07, Thomas Mayer wrote: >Hi Arturo, > >> I did not tune the book against Movei.... I tune a book for a specific >> engine. Anthony accepted my help and I did my best in 2 short months. Of >> course, how could you understand that? > >we had that discussion already in several forums. Uri has his point of view >(which is IMO totally wrong) and will not change that... senseless to discuss... > >You might remember CCT4 -> Since then I had never again such a fantastic tuned >book for Quarks needs - it was the work of Leo Dijksman which he had done in >several month with thousands of games and analysis. Of course it was Quark which >was playing that tourney but it had a fantastic book that lead it to positions >it can play. And that is what a good book cooker should do, he should help the >engine to end up in positions after the opening where it knows what it should >do. The more time he can spent on that the better it will do. > >Vincencts 700 Elo might be a bit to high, but 300 is for sure a good number - >the difference between a random book and a well tuned book. Especially the >weaker or more unbalanced your engine is, the more it is important to have a >perfect book. Maybe for a weak engine even Vincents 700 is possible... > >Greets, Thomas Ok, 300 points I could easily believe, assuming that you are tuning a specific book for a specific opponent (rather than a tournament such as the CCT). jm
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