Author: David Blackman
Date: 04:00:48 06/16/99
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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? I think this is fairly well known to most of the people who have written competitive programs. The art of preparing a computer book consists mostly of picking lines the computer can handle (and preferably its opponents can't), not picking lines that are actually good. Actually, this is true of competitive human chess as well. I am not very good at picking appropriate lines, either for my program, or for myself :-(
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