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Subject: Re: The truth about chess programs

Author: Tony Nichols

Date: 02:46:30 04/22/05

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On April 22, 2005 at 05:29:25, Francisco J. P. wrote:

Hi, Francisco
>About the opening books thing.
>
>All right, you say the database stored in the memory isn't fair cause the human
>can't do the same thing but, If the opening book has to be erased of the
>computer then the same has to be aplied to the human.
>
I never said this.

>It's clear that posibly, of the great openings number a GM knows, let's say only
>10% he knows them really. The rest he plays what his memory tells him. It's
>clear that at one point, the human had to learn the opening, but at one point he
>had to forget the true reason of why to make that move. So the human too plays
>opening moves without thinking why he has to do them, only cause his memory
>tells him to do them.
>
As far as I know your memory doesn't tell you to do anything. Also, I'm not sure
what you mean by learning the opening if you have to forget the reasons behind
the moves.

>So, let's make brainwashes to the GMs so they can't cheat against the
>computers...
I didn't say it was cheating. I just think that if we want to know the true
strength of programs we should eliminate the opening books.
Regards
Tony



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