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Subject: Re: The importance of opening books -- a simple experiment

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 15:59:47 02/17/05

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On February 17, 2005 at 16:22:18, Claude Le Page wrote:

>for this test I think it would not be quite fair to play without any book for
>one engine :in first moves every engine makes unreasonable ( and probably
>losing) moves


No
It is simply not correct.

engines may not do the best moves without book but usually the opponent will
find itself out of book not in a winning position.

>The best would be to have a "just sufficient" for one engine , and an
>"excellent" for the other

No

This test will not answer the question of the value of good book relative to no
book.

Uri



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