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

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 08:04:15 02/20/05

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On February 20, 2005 at 08:39:47, Arturo Ochoa 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
>
>
>Read this and you will realize why it is a waste of your valuable time to debate
>with Mr. Blass.
>
>http://www.talkchess.com/forums/1/message.html?412706

I did not reply earlier to that post of sandro because I did not see
big difference between my opinion and sandro's opinion.

My opinion is simply that the interesting part is the engine and not book
preperation against computer opponents.

The point is that an engine that prefer opening A and not opening B may be able
to play better opening B and not opening A after it is improved.

It means that the book maker will need to change the opening book to teach it to
prefer opening B and not opening A.

In other words the book for tournament 1 may be little relevance to future
tournament 2 when the work of the author for tournament 1 is still relevant for
tournament 2 because without the basis that he had in toutnament 1 he could not
improve the engine for tournament 2.

Uri




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