Author: Uri Blass
Date: 16:32:33 02/19/05
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On February 19, 2005 at 18:46:53, Arturo Ochoa wrote: >>Note that I never claimed that a good book cannot help an engine to win a >>tournament. >>If people understood it from me then I did a bad explaining job. >>I will try to do better explaining job in this post. >> > >??????????? !!!!!!!!!!!!! Go to (*)(**) > >> >> >>I said that I consider book as unimportant and I said that an engine that is > >(*) unimportant = not meaning much, not having value or significance > I agree with the definition but the question what is unimportant is also a question of opinion reasons for me to consider book as unimportasnt are the following: 1)not considering the target of winning tournament as an important target 2)thinking that it is possible to improve engine instead of book and get better results If shredder9 with book is weaker than some future Shredder19 without book then it is going to show point 2. >(1) Contradiction: "I did not claim that a book cannot help an engine...." .... >"I consider the book as unimportant..." > >(**) read the meaning of unimportant(*). > > > >>strong enough has good chances to win even with 1.h3 but > >(2) I have also suggested that 1. f3!! and 2. g4!! would be a lot better. :)) >The tops engine are already prepared for all those idiot moves including 1. h3? >and 1. f3?? This is only an example. The idea is clear. There are many ways to get the opponent out of book without lost position and it is not hard to find some line to take the opponent out of book with equality or almost equality with white. > > >>I never said that the engines that play in world championship are strong enough >>relative to their opponents >> >>The difference between the best and the second best is for years less than 100 >>elo and when there is a small difference of course a book can be the decisive >>factor about the question who is going to win. >> >>The point is that I believe in the following assumptions: >> >>1)It is possible to make an engine that is significantly stronger than >>shredder9(improvement of more than 200 elo in nunn type match and I am not >>talking only about nunn position but also about other equal positions out of >>book). > >(3) This is not relevant to your contradiction in (1). Nunn Matches dont say >anything about the significance of the book component. > >> >>I believe that it is only a question of time and I expect it to happen in less >>than 10 years from today. > >(4) This is a prediction not related to the topic. > >> >>2)A programmer who is good enough to develop an engine that is significantly >>stronger than the opponents has good chances to win WCCC even without working >>about book (when the opponents of course have not his new engine that made a big >>improvement of more than 200 elo). >> > >(5) Shredder, Junior and Fritz han showed this is not true over the latest years >in Official Tournaments. All of them use strong book tuned by hand. I have not >seen the first case from a no-book engine winning an official Tournament. Where >are the facts? > >AO The facts are that as long as the difference between engines is not very big a book may be important factor in winning tournaments. Uri
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