Author: Vincent Lejeune
Date: 03:34:08 12/10/05
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On December 08, 2005 at 15:30:12, James T. Walker wrote: >On December 08, 2005 at 08:48:28, Paul Jacobean Sacral wrote: > >>On December 08, 2005 at 08:01:05, James T. Walker wrote: >> >>>All my games are run with each program haveing their own cpu/book (except Rybka >>>plays without book) >> >>Please trash these games! :-) Engines with their own tuned opening books versus >>an engine without any opening support does not make sense. There are many fritz >>books available for download which have been generated for testing. Supplying >>Rybka with any mediocre book even, will be much more fair than using none. >> >>For testing engines (only), I would recommend to use the same book for all >>engines, or predefined opening sets. >> >>Yours truly Paul J. Sacral > >Hello Paul, >Well to me what "does not make sense" is to create a chess program without an >opening book unless you have spent a lot of time teaching your program opening >theory. I don't like to give a program a book that is not provided along with >the program. If an "official" book becomes available I will test again with >that book. It may be interesting to see what improvement in Elo comes from it. >In any case Rybka is an interesting program that is also strong. >Jim Fro togaII and Rybka I use the Perfect v9.0 ctg available here : http://www.geocities.com/sedatchess/download.html I think it's a good compromise between big (only 62MB) and good (no bad lines).
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