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Subject: Re: Opening Book Question

Author: Christos Gitsis

Date: 13:34:54 01/25/06

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On January 25, 2006 at 13:03:36, Christopher Conkie wrote:

>What would you say is the fairest method of testing an opening book? Is there a
>way to bench mark a book?

How about playing really long matches Program_A versus Program_A, Program_B
versus Program_B, etc., with one instance of each program using one opening
book, and the other instance using another?

I guess that if the same opening book were used for both instances, the results
of the matches would ultimately approach 50%-50%. If the results are different
than that, it could possibly mean that one opening book is stronger than the
other.

Of course this would require many long matches, which probably nobody is
interested in running.

Regards,
Christos.



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