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

Author: Sandro Necchi

Date: 04:58:24 02/20/05

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On February 20, 2005 at 07:37:21, Uri Blass wrote:

>On February 20, 2005 at 07:08:45, Sandro Necchi wrote:
>
>>Uri,
>>
>>do you think Kasparov can win without home preparation and without reading book
>>and check what's new and novelties as well?
>>
>>Well, believe it or not it is the same thing...I mean the chances to win without
>>this is like without a good opening book for a chess program.
>>
>>Sandro
>
>I did not claim that your book does not increase significantly the chances of
>shredder to win tournamnent.
>
>I only argued about the numbers.
>I agree that shredder has only small chances to win a tournament without book.
>I do not agree that the chances today are 0.000000001%(note that 1% is also a
>small chance).
>
>I also claimed that if the engine is strong enough relative to the opponents
>then it has good chances to win a tournament even without book(it does not say
>that book is not important for it to win tournament because increasing chances
>from 50% to 95% is important for winning tournaments).

According to Vincent one engine should be at least 700 points stronger than the
competitors to do what you claim....

Of course if one engine is much much stronger than all the others it can do it
even without a strong book, but even if 700 points may be a lot it should be at
least 300 points if not more and this seems quite impossible today...

>
>Uri

Sandro




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