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

Author: Steve B

Date: 14:00:29 06/24/05

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On June 24, 2005 at 16:56:30, Claude Le Page wrote:

>I totally agree that 12 moves are sufficient
>Why 12? and not 10 ?Because of 2 openings : Open Ruy Lopez and KID main line
>Else ,programs are quite able , either to find theretical moves or to find
>better ones
>I remember i was making tries on a "minimal" opening book:
>There was a match between Junior7 and ChessTiger15 ( 2 games same line , colours
>reversed ) anopening book gave only :
>1 Nf3 Nf6 2 c4
>In Ju7/CT15 I got a Neo-Grunfeld , and in CT15/Ju7 ,more amazingly , a
>Blumenfeld gambit
>But for Ruy Lopez and KID it doesn't work if your book doesnt give 10 moves ,
>and in2 cases preferably 12

there is a real puzzlement to me then
it seems as if many knowledgeable people here agree on a limited book and yet
none of the leading programs use this concept except for Hydra

i am simply dont know enough about PC  progs to understand why this is

Steve



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