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

Author: Sune Fischer

Date: 23:32:08 02/20/05

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On February 21, 2005 at 00:41:37, Dan Honeycutt wrote:
>
>I understood 1 vs 4 but not necessarily a repeating a losing line where, like
>you say, the difference can be anything you want.  More like engine X plays in a
>tournament with book 4 and achieves a rating of 2700 - has chances to win.  If
>it enters the same tournament with book 1 it will achieve a rating of ~ 2000 -
>no chance to win.

Sure, but you don't have to be 700 Elo weaker to have practicly zero chance.

Even if you are just 100 Elo weaker than the top guys you have extremely slim
chances of winning a long tournament.

From that POV getting the best book possible is of course important, still how
does this prove book 4 is worth 700 Elo?

-S.
>Dan H.



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