Author: William Penn
Date: 05:13:25 12/03/05
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On December 02, 2005 at 20:59:23, Enam wrote: >Hi Everyone, > >Can anyone tell me how to optimize a book, so i can try with chesslib's >powerbook. Thanks. > >Regards, > >Enam. > Set aside the next 5-10 years of your life. Quit your regular job. Devote yourself entirely to this task and maybe, just maybe, you will make a slight improvement... :) > >> I played with it in the past at Playchess 9 games and i noticed that in the 2 >>of them my engine lost, due to a bad line from the book. So i abandoned it for >>playing games with engines. >> The book is really huge, it is 1.08 GB while Fritz's, Shredder's, etc books are >>around 245 MB. Probably with a good optimization it can be a very good book, but >>this is not easy to be done......... The only purpose of these opening books, as far as I'm concerned, is to derive statistical analyses for the different candidate moves. Perhaps the statistics indicate which is the best move, as a first approximation, but not always. It is not so easy. WP
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