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Subject: Re: MChessPro v. 8 is a damn strong program

Author: Lonnie Cook

Date: 19:29:42 12/08/99

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On December 08, 1999 at 22:22:00, Manuel Leone wrote:

>> learning and book tuning, everyone does it!
>
>Do you have any evidence for this?

Evidence! heehee. Yeah, I got it right here. I don't have it so I guess it
doesn' t happen then, yeah right. Someone sees a certain line and every program
plays one another you mean to tell me in this beautiful, paradisic world of
honest , loving people no one is going to exploit it. of course they will but
they will come out and admit it.

The learning function is
>certainly a useful feature, but developing a "killer book"
>specifically to beat one or two programs in order to move up
>on the SSDF rating list, is not the way chess programs should be
>written. The author of Hiarcs, for example, stated that his
>programs don't rely on such methods to get a high rating; they
>depend on chess strength alone.



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