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Subject: Re: Rybka after 320 blitz games

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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