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Subject: Re: Why brilliant moves in the opening book might be harmful

Author: J. Wesley Cleveland

Date: 09:43:46 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?

as someone said in another message ;)

>I think that somebody should "pre-analyze" chess positions.  Then we could have
>sound books (or at least books that computers can deal with...).  We could call
>it the "Chess Analysis Project."
>
>OK, so it sounds like a silly idea.
>;-)



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