Author: Pete Galati
Date: 23:58:44 06/15/99
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On June 15, 1999 at 23:29:16, Dann Corbit wrote: >If you have an opening book that contains brilliant moves -- especially >positional or sacrifice based upon completion -- it is quite likely that they >will cause your program terrible harm. Having a brilliant move is of no >benefit, if your program does not know what to do with the position. Even if >the opening book suggests the next move, unless your program can see what to do >after that, having such a position could do a lot more harm than good. Being >able to utilize such a position means that you must exploit a plan that >understands the position. > >Opinions? What I've taken to doing with opening books is that I use only games played program vs program, although I do have a few GM vs program games left in there. My idea being that passed the first few moves I have a good chance of still finding some more moves allready calculated out by better programs on more impressive computers, so I won't have the program doing searches quite as soon because the work's allready been done. I also don't use draws, long games (80 moves is too long), or short games. And the whole collection is games played since 1995. I'm sure I'll use the games currentlly being played at Paterborn. Pete Galati
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