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

Author: Stephen A. Boak

Date: 08:06:23 02/18/05

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On February 18, 2005 at 10:34:55, Arturo Ochoa wrote:

>On February 18, 2005 at 02:26:43, Uri Blass wrote:
>
>>On February 18, 2005 at 02:14:15, Uri Blass wrote:
>><snipped>
>>>the games in CCT are not more important than other games as long as movei is an
>>>extremely weak engine that is probably even weaker than glaurung because it is
>>>near the level of gothmog and gothmog is weaker than glaurung based on Tord).
>>
>>Note also that if you want to see some evidence that movei is near the level of
>>gothmog then you can look at
>>http://www.husvankempen.de/nunn/aegt1002.txt
>>
>>Gothmog 2549
>>Movei   2533
>>
>>Difference are inside the statistical error.
>
>First, the rating is inflated. Second: are the games run in blitz time controls?
>Third, can it be consider valid for the topic to use a common tyny opening book
>as the nuun one?
>
>I dont see what your point is  here.

Inflated?  Compared to what?
Where are the facts, tests and statistics to prove this opinion?
Careful, Arturo, you are on slippery ground!  :)



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