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

Author: Arturo Ochoa

Date: 07:44:22 02/18/05

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On February 17, 2005 at 19:02:00, Uri Blass wrote:

>On February 17, 2005 at 15:59:07, David Dahlem wrote:
>
>>Wouldn't the best way to test the importance of opening books be to test an
>>engine without a book against the same engine with a good opening book?
>
>No
>
>The best test is to test against another opponent.
>
>results between different personalities of the same engine can be misleading so
>if you want to test the value of Hiarcs book you need to test it against a third
>opponent.
>
>Uri

Do you have facts that really support this asseveration? What tests? What
results have you ever run? I doubt you have ever run such a test to support
this.

It is nasty to asnwer in such hard way when you dont have any support.

Thefore, my answer is in the same way: _No_ :)))




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