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

Author: Arturo Ochoa

Date: 05:41:38 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.

Read this: You said a book is _important_

http://www.talkchess.com/forums/1/message.html?412706


>
>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).
>

You have argued a lot of supposition without a rational base.

>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).
>
>Uri

http://www.talkchess.com/forums/1/message.html?412706

Unless you are Blasstradamus, it has never happened.






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