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Subject: Re: Let's be fair to Junior

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 21:16:50 07/15/00

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On July 15, 2000 at 23:50:05, Pete Galati wrote:

>On July 15, 2000 at 22:12:17, kurt wrote:
>
>>Kramniks win was not a miracle. Just hard work.
>>Juniors loss was the fault of poor opening preparation.
>>Playing against the "Reversed Dutch Stonewall" without
>>an opening guidance against a GM looks impossible for
>>any comp. engines to solve. It took many years for humans
>>to find a proper responce with white colores against it.
>>To avoid future exploitations of such glareingly week
>>openings...engine owners work harder on "Book" to give
>>your engines a better chance to keep winning against GM'S.
>>Best regards, Kurt Widmann
>
>Only guessing, but I would imagine that Amir put a fair amount of effort into
>the Stonewall sections of Junior's book.  I'm sure that losses and draws are
>very valuable to him actually.

Orders of magnitude more valuable than a win.
Err...
Except for sales.  Consumers will see little more than won/loss/draw.



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