Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 10:47:32 01/09/06
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On January 08, 2006 at 15:13:35, Stuart Cracraft wrote: >On January 08, 2006 at 01:35:26, Uri Blass wrote: > >>On January 07, 2006 at 22:48:31, Joseph Anthony Merolle wrote: >> >>>First fruit now Rybka can we please make a last minute entry. Thank you >>> >>>Joseph >> >> >>No >> >>SSDF wait for rybka1.2 that is going to have an opening book and other >>improvement. >> >>There is no reason for ssdf to test a version without opening book. >> >>Uri > >Seems to me testing without an opening book, all programs, would be more >accurate comparison of chess strength. If you like to see exactly the same moves played over and over. >One could eliminate the opening issues by starting from a standard >set of positions like the Nunn suite. And eliminate the thousands of hours of work that the book builders have spent. >Ken Thompson used to do this when testing Belle. I bet if he had a book with 5000 hours of effort, he would not have done so.
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