Author: Kai Lübke
Date: 06:00:48 12/30/97
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On December 28, 1997 at 19:18:50, Dirk Frickenschmidt wrote: >On December 28, 1997 at 08:56:20, Kai Lübke wrote: >(move to bottom) > >Hi Kai: > >Here's the human theory concerning the game, based on Chessbase Big >Database 98: about 875.000 games, clean database, no doubles or currupt >data seen so far as in many other big databases; so the empirical basis >seems to be quite sound. >I'm of course not shure if there is a rare source for more games >anywhere out which contains more theory on this, but I think this is not >too probable. > >You find the theory lines in brackets. >They stop about where Rebel theory stops. Thanks for your effort! >Like Thorsten, Don Dailey, Fernando Villegas and others I don't want a >heated debate. I would even prefer if Peter Schreiner, Sandro Necchi and >Marty himself would express their point of view. We certainly can debate >all that in a calm and polite manner with some humor, but without any >hidden or open will to do any harm to Marty's program selling. I had >some very attractive games using Mchess6 - which I bought because it >plays strong chess! - and hope to see more of this kind from those who >bought Mchess7. And we should perhaps post some of these brillant games >played by the Mchess *engine* (not by the book) right here to make it >clear that the question is *not* something pro or anti Marty and his >fine program. > Exactly my opinion! Besides, I think the probability is very low that MCP7 "intentionally" (whatever that means for a program :-) played an "anti-whoever-line" because it's very hard to see "Oh, I must be playing against Rebel 8" from just one (not too uncommon) opening. My intention in publishing this game was certainly not to accuse Marty or Sandro of any "foul play", I just found it interesting. And I like MCP7's book much more than MCP5's. >Anyway it must be possible to debate where book learning development >might lead us and what we users expect a program to do and what not. >Maybe this differs from user to user, maybe a majority likes this or >that... My opinion has always been that people can put anything they like in their opening books. If Kasparov goes into a match against Anand, he'll think "Oh, it's Vishy, I know he doesn't like the Benkö Gambit, so I'll play that one" or something like that. A program has no way to know which program (or human) it's playing against, so the chances of playing any "killer lines" are very low anyway... --- Shep
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