Author: Drexel,Michael
Date: 11:45:29 08/15/05
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On August 15, 2005 at 12:23:47, Uri Blass wrote: >On August 15, 2005 at 11:51:44, Drexel,Michael 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. >> >>Correct, certainly the move Bb4 should be avoided entirely in this line. >> >>Does anyone know who made the book for Fruit, or is it >>>just the stock book compiled by Dann Corbit? >>> >>>Djordje >> >>That´s the price you have to pay as a newcomer. It´s definitely not sufficient >>to have a strong engine in such tournaments. >>But Fabien rightly didn´t expect too much anyway. >> >>Michael > >If the engine is strong enough it is sufficient to have strong engine. >based on the times in the pgn that I read Fruit was out of book in move 3 >Unfortunately it could not find moves that are good enough. > >Uri Uri, you can be really stubborn at times. If your opponent has cooked up an opening trap which is about 20 moves deep in some important lines and even has tested with your current engine or with a predecessor of your current engine you can be as strong as you want. It is _not_ sufficient to have a strong engine. Michael
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