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Subject: Re: Strength of the engine in chess programs

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 15:00:32 05/20/02

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On May 20, 2002 at 17:12:53, Michael Vox wrote:

>On May 20, 2002 at 13:56:10, Uri Blass wrote:
>
>>I do not think that using book is cheating.
>>I believe that there are also GM's who remember some book moves without
>>understanding them.
>
>Definitely *not* (C)heating.
>
>However, how much book the comp is allowed to use could become an issue.
>Perhaps, in tournament play they could be limited to a certain size of book, may
>be determined in KB's....ex. 500kbs

I prefer to see limitation of the total memory that the program is using.
How much of the memory is book should be the programmer's choice.

Uri



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