From: SChazworth <at> AOL <dot> COM
Date: 16 dec 1996
Subject: Re: Book Evaluation

Of course, the fun of programming a Shogi program, is that it's much more
difficult than Chess or Go-Moku.  To make a functional working program, it's
probably more effective to use an opening book, but the artistic programmer
(which is definitely NOT a contradiction) tries to let the computer's
strategic and tactical rules produce an opening on it's own.  A major
compliment to chess computer programmers was the moment a computer without an
opening book played a well known 'book' defence through several moves!