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

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 06:51:00 02/18/05

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On February 17, 2005 at 15:31:49, Claude Le Page wrote:

>Hi to all!
>IMHO the "true" test would be to use identical engines (or nearly so , as
>Hiarcs9 and Hiarcs8Bareiev) with different books ; then to make the test more
>conclusive , you may interchange the books: it is an elementary case of
>experience planning
>Friendly Yours
>Claude Le Page

I disagree.

If you want to compare between the rating of Hiarcs with book and the rating of
Hiarcs without book then testing both programs against the same opponents is a
good experiment.

I do not see why testing them against Hiarcs is a better experiment than testing
them against not hiarcs programs.

Uri



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