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Subject: Re: To my surprise, the big book did not die

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 10:49:03 07/11/05

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On July 11, 2005 at 13:36:32, Dann Corbit wrote:

>Using the largest book, in the Shredder interface so that Shredder could use his
>own book, I expected Fruit to take a beating.  It did not happen:
>  Program          Elo    +   -   Games   Score   Av.Op.  Draws
>1 Fruit 2.1      : 2780   85  85    49    50.0 %   2780   30.6 %
>2 Shredder 9 UCI : 2780   85  85    49    50.0 %   2780   30.6 %
>
>Now, it is only a tiny number of games, but still surprising to me.  Perhaps
>Fabien is doing some clever statistics on the data when forming the book.  I
>shall have to take a look now and see.

Or perhaps big book is good in fast time control when at slower time control it
is better to have a smaller book because at slower time control the program may
find better moves than book moves.

Uri



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