Re: Low impact of opening phase in engine play?
Posted: Thu Apr 20, 2017 2:10 am
You simply do not understand the purpose of this experiment. I am using the 3-mover GM book for variety of openings and reasonable, balanced openings. 2moves_v1.epd does not offer reasonable balanced openings. I am not interested in the value of 20-move tuned book, which might be worth hundreds of Elo points even between equal engines in ultra-fast games. And the experiment measures the (played by engine) contribution of opening phase of the game (first 12 moves) to general play starting with fairly equal positions, preferably as close as possible to the standard opening position. If I wanted to measure the impact of the book to gameplay, I would pit two identical Stockfishes, one with a book, the other without.Ras wrote:
The basic aspect of an untuned book is "only" time saving.