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Subject: Re: Hydra's Limit Of A Ten Move Per Line Opening Book

Author: Henrik Dinesen

Date: 11:01:32 06/24/05

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On June 24, 2005 at 13:41:08, Steve B wrote:

>I generally never read any posts related to PC Chess progs so Perhaps this topic
>has already been discussed here..if so ..just point me to the right thread
>
>if not...what do the experts say here about this programming concept?
>
>lets forget the current debacle with  Adams..i am not certain he was a right
>choice to play Hydra..
>
>the Hydra team feels that after 10 moves the computer can do better then the
>accumulated knowledge of master theory
>
>a pretty bold assumption.. not to mention a bit brazen
>
>do any other of the worlds leading Progs employ a similar limted ply count book?
>
>Steve

To my knowledge, no. Mostly they use selected lines from theory, and some
mainlines are pretty deep. Of-beat lines is left almost alone, unless the
book-cooker has investigated some special ones deeply enough to make the engine
play it with some novelty implemented.

Henrik



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