Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 00:09:25 03/26/05
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On March 26, 2005 at 02:56:17, Hugo Garcia wrote: >I have noticed that the great majority of the tournaments held here have the >chess engines use some kind of opening book. What would happen if they did not >use any opening book? This would create a situation of "raw combat." Actually, raw boredom, as the engines would play the same opening over and over again, causing giant piles of duplicate games. If learning was turned on, eventually, they would stop playing stupid moves and start playing sensibly in the beginning. Otherwise, it would not be a pretty sight. >That is, >I am sure many players use these programs to analyze all kinds of chess >positions and would like to know the programs' strengths in different positions. > Many times, opening books lead a program to head towards positions favorable to >its strengths and away from its weaknesses. That's the hope anyway. Kurt and Rolf have done some variations on opening book experiments. You might like to look up their site.
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