Author: William H Rogers
Date: 13:19:08 06/24/05
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I think people have to ask how many moves are considered opening moves? How deep into the game before it becomes mid-game or end-game. I have posted this once before by quoting an example of a tournement held in early 2004 when one program checkmated another without ever leaving its 'opening book'. In my opinion that is not a chess engine but a massive book or game recreator. I would like to see the American Chess Federation or some other main body set some ground rules on how deep opening books can go. I think that 10 moves should be enough but apparantely not all chess engine makers agree. The ideal proposed chess tournement should require all engines to play on identiacl equipment with the same depth of opening books and in this case only 10 moves deep. Once and for all if this kind of tournement is done the the actual strength will be known. What good does it do us, the would be users if the program is written to play on 10 or 20 processor (multi process) at the same time or maybe we should allow the use of Crays once again. I have been making this assertion for over 10 years now but it seems that no one either hears me or likes my ideas. Bill
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