Author: Uri Blass
Date: 03:02:25 02/20/05
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On February 20, 2005 at 04:40:19, Sandro Necchi wrote: >On February 19, 2005 at 07:43:49, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: > >>On February 17, 2005 at 14:03:30, Tord Romstad wrote: > >Hi Vincent, > >I hope everything is well with you. I guess you'll meet Stefan at Paderborn. > >> >>Don't do idiot experiments that just support the idiocy you invented yourself. >> >>IF you have an engine rated 3000 in strength THEN it will play virtually achieve >>2300 in the important games instead of 3000 when NOT using a book. So the book >>delivers 700 rating points. > >This is a very interesting statement. >I agree with you and I know that the stronger an engine is the best it will get >from a good opening book, but I never estimated how much it would get reaching >3000 in strenght. > >> >>Experiments with some idiot engine that is itself rated what is it, 2200, >>will be useless of course. >> >>Some years ago when engines were 2200 level it was the Mchess-Necchi team who >>said a book was worth 300, and he meant that obviously in the same way as i mean >>the 700 points at real high level. > >Yes, you are correct. > >> >>The weakest link is what counts. >> >>I don't care for your engine in that respect, let alone such stupid experiment. >> >>Take a strong engine from which you feel it is the best engine in the world. >>Show up without book in important events. World champ will be the best test. >> >>THEN calculate after a 100 years of doing that, what the odds were you won that >>event. You will see it's 0%. > >Yes, here we agree too. > >Sandro Suppose for the discussion that stefan find a way to improve the engine by 200 elo in one year based on rating from the predefined positions that it was not tuned specifically for them(correct me if I am wrong but you probably expect it to happen in less than 10 years but not in one year). Do you think that it also had no chance to win world championship without book in 2006? If not then the chances to win world championship is more than 0% in case that you have an engine that is strong enough. Uri
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