Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 11:42:02 02/01/00
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On February 01, 2000 at 13:04:07, Colin Frayn wrote: >Does anyone know what the limitations (if any) on the use of opening books in >computer chess tournaments are? Is there a standard book that everyone has to >use, or can you basically make a book as big as you like? Bigger is not always better. I think crafty has gone to a much narrower book for tournaments that it used to use. Most opening books have bugs in them, and many of the really big books have a huge number of bugs in them. An excellent opening book can give you a very decisive advantage. If you could make a very large one and yet keep the high quality, it would be dominating. You would put your opponents under a lot of time pressure, since you saved it up front with the book.
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