Author: Djordje Vidanovic
Date: 09:20:09 08/15/05
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On August 15, 2005 at 12:12:34, Uri Blass wrote: >On August 15, 2005 at 11:36:10, Djordje Vidanovic wrote: > >>Just took a look at the Zappa-Fruit game and can't believe that Fruit was not >>expecting the kind of lame beginner's trap in the opening. It was so >>predictable that the Zappa team would go for 1.d4...2.Nc3...3.f3... from the >>previous tournaments. Does anyone know who made the book for Fruit, or is it >>just the stock book compiled by Dann Corbit? >> >>Djordje > >Can you explain what previous tournament you talk about. > >I did not learn Fruit's games. >Did you see games when fruit lost against this line in some serious >tournament(of course it was possible to test at home against fruit2.1 and find >good lines against it)? > >Note also that I believe that zappa 4 processors is also stronger than Fruit 1 >processor in nunn type match not because anatony is better programmer but >because he could learn from fruit when Fabien could not learn from zappa and my >estimate is that Zappa is already at fruit2.1's level on one processor and the >improvement from Fruit2.1 to Fruit WCCC is smaller than the improvement from >zappa 1 processor to zappa 4 processors. > >Uri Erdogan Guenes made several opening books for several programs that participated in different tournaments. Besides, he is a regular at playchess.com where he experiments (just like me and hundreds of others) with openings he likes. I just gave some more food for thought quoting his games in the pgn format in a post below that you probably missed. I don't know anything about the latest Zappa and, just like you, I think that it is very strong. However, I am convinced that Fruit could have had a much better fighting chance given another type of opening, instead of the one played in which it was merely a spectator with almost no counterplay. All due to the bad opening. I also claim that Zappa's opening lines are extremely easy to predict and can be met easily. That's all. Djordje
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