Author: Kurt Utzinger
Date: 03:32:20 11/13/05
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On November 13, 2005 at 04:36:47, Ryan B. wrote:
>On November 13, 2005 at 03:40:47, Kurt Utzinger wrote:
>
>>On November 12, 2005 at 22:39:25, chandler yergin wrote:
>>
>>>What's all this stuff about Opening Books?
>>>To keep up with Opening Theory simply download all recent games from TWIC
>>>(The Week In Chess) Drag and drop into the .ctg Book
>>>Truncate 20 moves..
>>
>> And what's then? Do you really think that
>> it's so easy to create a good book in this
>> way? No, this will never work.
>> Regards
>> Kurt
>
>I agree. I feel it is safe to assume that chess engines are not studying
>openings in their free time so they will know how to play out of the latest
>popular openings. Even with book and position learning the engine will only
>know what did not work in the past. It would be far more productive to study
>the strengths and weaknesses of an engine and hand tune a book to play to the
>strengths. The big issue with this is time.
>
>Ryan
Just right: all book experts know from experience
that to create a hand tuned book adapted to the
playing style of the engine is a very hard and
above all very time consuming job.
Regards
Kurt
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