Author: Komputer Korner
Date: 06:21:19 07/30/98
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On July 29, 1998 at 15:33:14, Howard Exner wrote: >On July 29, 1998 at 08:34:35, Komputer Korner wrote: > >>On July 29, 1998 at 08:01:15, Ed Schröder wrote: >> >>>>Jeroen, you need Knut Neven's GIGANTIC BASE of 1.3 million games with less >>>>than 4/10 ths of 1 % doubles. It has 3 games of 11.d5 It is hellishly complicated >>>>but 11.d5 looks very good for white. It seems as if Anand did not properly >>>>prepare for Rebel 10. >>> >>>Jeroen doesn't work that way. He prefers to do it the hard way by typing move >>>by move to the Rebel book instead of extracting an opening book from a large >>>database. This because the result is simply better. >>> >>>>Super GM's still do not have the proper respectfor micros! >>> >>>How do you know? >>> >> >>The super GMs know that the micros have't done the opening homework. This is >>because the micros can't as of yet. There is no automated opening prep in the >>micro coding. Thus Jeroen has to do it all. Since Jeroen is not a GM or strong >>IM, he can't do as good a job as a player like Anand. > >Opening prep is not the equivalent of playing an over the board game. >Given adequate time and resources a strong player like Jeroen is capable >of unravelling complex opening systems as well as other chess positions. >Think for a moment about correspondence chess players and the deep >games they come up with. More than a few opening discoveries have been >attributted to correspondence games. Should they be rejected because of >a non-GM over the board rating? > >Does Anand do all of his opening prep himself or does he share >this task with his seconds? > >Today Jeroen and anyone owning today's software can utilize these >programs to see more deeply into games. We punch in a series of moves, use >takeback, keep notes. Even I had the audacity to post awhile back that in >game #7 Anand's 24th move, Bd2 should be reconsidered as not possibly >best here. Instead I suggested Bg4, followed by a plan of putting >the dark squared bishop on b2 and his remaining rook on g1 as a plan >that might cause Rebel 10 more difficulty. You are forgetting that the GMs use the same tools that you do. Kasparov has 2 notebooks ( maybe more by now) running chess programs 24 hours a day searching for novelties and a team of assistants to give him the results of their analyzing. The world correspondence champion has an over the board (OTB) rating of 2345 FIDE. I watched him play in the recent Canadian Open Championship (OTB play). He is definitely no Kasparov. I have also watched other correspondence GMs play OTB chess. They are definitely not at the level of real OTB GMs. So given the same amount of time to prepare openings with the same tools (chess programs), which person would you hire as your openings prep person, Anand or Noomen? I am in no way judging Jeroen's competence. He probably is worth the money that Ed is paying him. However you won't convince any reader of this club that he can prepare openings as well as Anand or any other GM for that matter. I rest my case your honour. -- Komputer Korner
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