Author: Dan Honeycutt
Date: 14:02:25 06/24/05
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On June 24, 2005 at 16:19:08, William H Rogers wrote: >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 Hi Bill There is nothing wrong with building a car designed to run in the Soap Box Derby. There is also nothing wrong with designing one to run on the Bonneville Salt Flats. Best Dan H.
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