Author: Peter Berger
Date: 12:28:26 06/23/05
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On June 23, 2005 at 15:15:27, Matthew Hull wrote: >On June 23, 2005 at 15:04:35, Peter Berger wrote: > >>On June 23, 2005 at 14:46:26, Robert Hyatt wrote: >> >>>On June 23, 2005 at 12:44:31, Peter Kappler wrote: >>> >>> >>>Utterly marvelous choice of opening by black again. Think he is going to figure >>>this out anytime soon? :) >> >>I disagree - the closed Ruy Lopez was *the* logical choice for Adams IMHO. > > >How can it be logical when white simply opens the closed Ruy? Open and closed are too simple categories anyway IMHO. But maybe it's sufficient to answer that there is *no* opening setup against 1. e4 that forces a closed position .. - the closed Ruy is one of the most reasonable tries. >>But >>kudos to the Hydra book author for choosing 9. d4. >> >>I think this was a very impressive game and among the best I have seen played by >>a computer against a player of Adams's strength. One gets the impression that >>Hydra maybe simply is the better chessplayer. > > >I'm thinking any other machine would have played the same moves on nice >hardware. I don't think we've seen what Hydra can do yet, since the games so >far seem no different than Shredder or Junior games. This is obviously starting with the conclusion before looking at the data, but even if this were true, I don't really get your point. Peter
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