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Subject: Re: Opening books and computer programs -- some thoughts

Author: James Robertson

Date: 14:36:41 03/23/99

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On March 23, 1999 at 16:13:18, Dann Corbit wrote:

>On March 23, 1999 at 16:01:32, James Robertson wrote:
>[snip]
>>This reminds me of the poetry on your ftp site (I enjoyed both). :)
>I get all different kinds of reactions from praise to "Why do you write such
>depressing, stupid drivel?" ;-)
>
>>I am on the lookout for pgn files between top GM's to make my program's book out
>>of. It can't be too big (I have to send it over email to people) so I can't
>>download say, 300,000 Fried Liver Attack games. I downloaded Hotties.pgn, and it
>>was nice. Do you have any other pgn files like it?
>That file is very special case.  While it does have a lot of useful information
>for special openings, they are rarely played.  If your program can read EPD, you
>might get ECO_PRI.EPD.  I doubt if the one on the site has all of the latest
>work.  Thus far, I have re-analyzed every position that had a ce greater than
>one at 8 hours to find out if they really were serious problems or just
>something a bit too deep.  Eventually, I will have the whole thing analyzed at
>that level.  Before long, we will release a huge volume of excellent EPD data
>(it contains about two decades of PII 300 MHz CPU equivalent effort).  But if
>your program won't read EPD, it won't help you much.

My program can read EPD. So I should download the file, and save each epd
position in my program's book? Then I can decide which move to chose by the
score for the position?

James



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