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Subject: Re: book or no book....... that is the question ??

Author: Alexander Kure

Date: 12:17:19 01/27/00

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On January 27, 2000 at 05:27:52, José Carlos wrote:

>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:))
>
>  The book is part of the program, as the opening knowledge is part of the human
>players strength. Humans study openings and programmers improve their programs
>book. Don't separate the search engine from the opening book.
>
>  José C.

I have nothing seen that is worse than programmers improving upon their
program's opening book ;-)

Greetings
Alex



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