Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 20:52:18 09/30/04
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On September 30, 2004 at 23:03:19, Peter Skinner wrote: >On September 30, 2004 at 19:59:08, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>On September 30, 2004 at 18:30:40, Peter Skinner wrote: >> >>>On September 30, 2004 at 18:02:21, Robert Hyatt wrote: >>> >>>> >>>>>Again Crafty lost an Nimzo-Indian with white. When will it change to 1.e4? >>>> >>>>It won't. >>>> >>>>:) >>> >>>Do you honestly feel Crafty plays better vs computers with 1.d4? >>> >>>I find in online games that Crafty does very well with 1.e4 or 1.Nf3 against >>>computers. >>> >>>Peter >> >> >>The problem is professional book lines in 1. e4 openings... > >I see your point. > >Would it not be better to supply an opening bookc.bin that would refute many of >the lines, or at best come out of the opening even? > >Playing 1.d4 is simply going to get Crafty in trouble in quite a few of the >games. You can only play it so many times before learning hurts you instead of >helping you. > >Peter The thing is, they play X games with one computer, so learning ought to fix this up unless the Nimzo lines are so well plotted that everything it tries fails. Making a special SSDF opening book is not something I have time to do. Nor anyone else I know of. IE Peter has some stuff from the WCCC, but we'd not want to reveal that via SSDF testing as we will likely play in the next WCCC event and will need a unknown book for it...
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