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Subject: Re: Engines (without book) are DAMNED STRONG in the opening; Nonsense

Author: Chessfun

Date: 03:20:22 01/30/04

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On January 30, 2004 at 04:51:32, Drexel,Michael wrote:

>On January 30, 2004 at 04:03:46, Uri Blass wrote:
>
>>On January 28, 2004 at 14:40:48, Drexel,Michael wrote:
>>
>>>On January 27, 2004 at 16:52:59, Mike S. wrote:
>>>
>>>>On January 27, 2004 at 03:07:02, Reinhard Scharnagl wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>a) an intelligent engine, which could navigate itself through any opening phase
>>>>
>>>>The Rogozenko match has shown that nowadays engines (even if not especially
>>>>adapted for FRC or Shuffle) are most probably stronger than a "normal" GM at
>>>>this. Rogozenko lost that match against Tiger 15, even although he was allowed
>>>>to use a computer for tactical assistance!
>>>
>>>GM Rogozenko might not be able to win against computers in FRC with tactical
>>>assistance.
>>>
>>>You conclude from one match (specific player vs. specific program) that
>>>a normal GM is "most probably" weaker.
>>>The same person would cry out loud if someone would draw the conclusion from one
>>>short match Ruffian 2-Shredder 8 that ended clearly in favour of Ruffian 2:
>>>
>>>Ruffian 2 is most probably stronger than Shredder 8.
>>>
>>>>
>>>>You always argue like engines would be complete unable to play openings
>>>>themselves. This is just plain wrong and provides false information for new
>>>>computerchess fans. It's just that the level of play may be somewhat lower
>>>>*sometimes* (in a minority of cases IMO), maybe 2300 instead of 2600 in extreme
>>>>cases, i.e. in difficult long range gambits. Man needed *decades* of opening
>>>>theory and practise to explore such gambits. Often, much of the old analysis is
>>>>wrong, refutations are found again and again. So why expect from chess engines,
>>>>that they find all this correctly in 3 minutes?? :-))
>>>>
>>>>In general, engines will be better than IMs and GMs anyway, when "normal"
>>>>(normal for computers means very deep) tactical things have to be calculated in
>>>>the opening. Im not talking about Kasparov, but "normal" GMs. Most engines know
>>>>the common opening principles quite well (different quality of engines
>>>>undisputed).
>>>
>>>Man, you have obviously no clue about what you are talking here.
>>>Two of the three best programs according to SSDF (Fritz and Junior) know nothing
>>>about common opening principles.
>>>Junior moves its Qeen around in the opening like someone who hasn't learned yet
>>>how to move with knights and bishops and Deep Fritz plays sometimes even worse:
>>>
>>>http://talkchess.com/forums/1/message.html?345123
>>
>>Are you sure that Deep fritz8 played the moves?>
>>I do not have Deep Fritz8 but I suspect that the person who run it did an error
>>and used a weak personality of Deep Fritz8.
>
>The person who run it was Axel Schumacher. I am pretty sure he knows how to
>setup Deep Fritz 8 and didn't use a weaker personality intentional.
>
>My Fritz 8 (8.0026 now) does not like to play 6...e6 but Deep Fritz 8 is the
>successor that played Kasparov. I assume this version is tuned to be very
>anti-materialistic?
>
Analysis by Deep Fritz 8:

6...Nf6 7.Bd3 Qa5+ 8.Nd2 Qxd5 9.0-0 Bg4 10.Qe1
  ²  (0.49)   Depth: 7/20   00:00:00  79kN
6...Nf6 7.Bd3 Nxd5 8.0-0 e5 9.Qe2 Qf6 10.Rd1
  ²  (0.44)   Depth: 8/21   00:00:00  205kN
6...Nf6 7.Bd3 Qxd5 8.0-0 Bg4 9.f3 Qc5+ 10.Kh1 Bf5 11.Bxf5 Qxf5
  ²  (0.46)   Depth: 9/21   00:00:00  468kN
6...Nf6 7.dxc6 Qxd1+ 8.Kxd1 Rb8 9.c7 Rb6 10.Be3 Rxb2 11.Bd4 Rb4 12.Bxf6 exf6
  ²  (0.51)   Depth: 10/28   00:00:01  1222kN
6...Nf6--
  ±  (0.79)   Depth: 11/28   00:00:02  2205kN
6...Nf6 7.dxc6 Qxd1+ 8.Kxd1 Rb8 9.Nc3 a6
  ±  (1.00)   Depth: 11/28   00:00:03  2859kN
6...e6!
  ±  (1.00)   Depth: 11/28   00:00:03  3447kN
6...e6!
  ±  (0.84)   Depth: 11/28   00:00:03  3837kN
6...e6 7.dxc6 Qxd1+ 8.Kxd1 Ne7 9.c7 Bd7 10.Bd2 Rc8 11.Kc1 Rxc7 12.Bf4 Rb7 13.Bd3
  ±  (0.76)   Depth: 11/28   00:00:04  4688kN
6...e6 7.dxc6 Qxd1+ 8.Kxd1 Ne7 9.c7 Bd7 10.Be3 Rc8
  ±  (0.80)   Depth: 12/33   00:00:09  9329kN

Sarah.



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