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Subject: Re: Leiden(5): Pro Deo-Chess Tiger 1-0 analysis please...

Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto

Date: 00:43:27 10/20/04

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On October 20, 2004 at 03:16:36, Thorsten Czub wrote:

>Its nonsense to play with a big book of writer JN against another big book of
>author JN. The result in the end is nearly random, depending in which book
>preparation line you land. Here it was -1 against Tiger. This makes no sense.
>
>the engines should IMO play themselves, and not lose a game due to a stupid book
>line.
>
>they can do IMO tournaments for book writers seperate, there the book writers
>can get their climax after such games :-)) but for a national championship i
>would wish the programmers or programs would learn that books are made to HELP
>and engine, not to decide games. the engine is the important thing, not the
>book.
>in this case the engine had almost no chance to stop the book line from running
>into a lost position. programmers should not follow book lines BLINDLY. they
>should let run the engine in the background and check if the book moves make
>sense. if e.g. the book move is 0.30 weaker then the move the engine choses, i
>would play out the engine move.

Jeroen commented during the game that the opening was a dead draw but that Tiger
was completely misplaying it.

--
GCP



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