Author: Mark Young
Date: 09:34:30 03/15/98
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On March 15, 1998 at 06:24:35, Jari Kylmälä wrote: >On March 15, 1998 at 03:22:28, Albert Silver wrote: > >> >>On March 14, 1998 at 18:27:28, Mark Young wrote: >> >>>UPDATE: Fritz 5 lost its first game today to ChessGenius4. Here are the >>>new results. >>> >>> >>>14 Games have been played avg. rating of players is 2513.429. Fritz 5 >>>has scored 82%. This gives Fritz 5 a Performence rating of 2770.696 >>> >>> >>> >>>Move 18... Bxg2?? seems to be the losing move in the game. Fritz gets a >>>pawn and a positionally lost game,and Genius 4 gets the attack. This was >>>all book for genius 4. A very nice anti-computer line put in by Lang. >>> >>> >> >>Are you sure this is an anti-computer line? Remember Fritz 5 came out >>long after Genius 4. >> >> Albert >>> > >There are many anti-computer lines which aren't set against a specific >program but against all other programs. I wouldn't call the line played >in this game anti-computer line though. It's just a nice sacrifice to >get positionally better play. It takes many moves to get a clear >advantage from it and so I think it's risky as well.. but it's so deep >I bet all micro-computer programs would play Bxg2 until they are given >hours of thinking time. I actually bet even Deep Blue would play it.. >It would be interesting to see how would Genius finish the game against >DB after Bxg2. :) > >------------------------------------------------------------------ If anti-computer term is to strong a term in this case, then lets just call it a good line choice to have in your opening book in case your program mite play another computer. As I told the operator of chessgenius4 "Fritz 5 is thinking of playing Bxg2. IF it does Fritz's is lost." I am only an average chess player and I could see what would happen. Who else but a computer would play Bxg2? Would you have played it?
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