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Subject: Re: Yace vs Aristarch (update)

Author: pavel

Date: 04:33:45 05/01/05

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On May 01, 2005 at 05:21:52, Dieter Buerssner wrote:

>On April 29, 2005 at 21:52:51, pavel wrote:
>
>>What other nice hidden features are out there in YACE? :)
>
>I wish, I had written all down ...
>
>>http://www.pavs.org/opening_statistics.txt
>>(6411 games)
>>
>>I didn't understand this:
>>BXX:   +350   =197   -357   ( 49.61% in    904 games)
>>
>>Yace played this opening 904 times, how did it loose more than half of the games
>>in this position? Isn't it suppose to "avoid" bad position leading to "loosing
>>postions", learned from previous games?
>
>Günther already mentioned, that this was almost average. Are you using book
>learning (I know, that you use position learning)? Position learning alone will
>not affect book choices at all. Is Aristarch using book learning?
>
>>If you want I can send you the games, or print the opening stats for every 1000
>>games.
>
>Thanks, I fear I will not find the time, to look over all this carefully. It
>might be interesting for a book cooker. One would then probably also want to
>have a comparision to results with longer time controls, before making
>conclusions.
>
>Günther, yes, some of those look rather extreme. Feel free to look at the games
>and send comments :-)
>
>Cheers,
>Dieter

Dieter, does book learning work under Chessbase as a UCI engine?
Maybe that's the problem, both program are using book learning.

Cheers,
pavs



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