Author: Tom Kerrigan
Date: 23:06:15 01/26/00
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On January 27, 2000 at 01:51:19, pavel wrote: >hi guys, > i was wondering that which program actually plays good even without any >opening book. in my personal test i have seen TCB beat crafty in several games >(not more) without any form of opening book, and crafty with 12mb opening book. >on the other hand in this position lg2000v2 plays very bad games without an >opening book. looses 90% of the games against crafty (tested on almost 200 >games). is there any stats about it? >what does the proggramers think? >thanks >pavel:)) It should be a rare occurance when a program is used without its opening book. After all, the book is part of the program. And the program is no doubt designed with this in mind. However, it is advantageous for a program to play reasonably with no book. Humans (and some programs) are annoyingly clever at getting programs out of book early... -Tom
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