Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 11:17:11 02/18/05
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On February 18, 2005 at 12:52:51, Volker Böhm wrote: >Hi, > >this shouldn´t be a problem would it? :-) > >Not joking: >I think a good book could improve a chess engine, and a bad book can hinder a >chess engine. >My theory is that the stronger a chess engine is, the better must a book be to >not weaken the strength of the engine. Thus a strong engine needs at least an >acceptable book. The amount of elo a strong engine can gain from a "very strong >book" (i.e. a book that is well tuned for the engine) is much less than the >amount of elo a weak engine can gain. Originally, that was my theory also. But a good book seems to provide as good or perhaps even more benefit for Fruit as it does for Glaurung. Now, Fruit is stronger than Glaurung, and so I would have expected a bigger benfit for Glaurung. But I did not see that: http://www.talkchess.com/forums/1/message.html?412441 Probably, at least with extreme examples, we must see something along those lines, I would think. We cannot (for instance) benefit a 2700 Elo program by 400 Elo points, but probably with a 1500 engine and an excellent, deep book we can do that.
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