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Subject: Re: Let's be fair to Junior

Author: kurt

Date: 22:54:43 07/15/00

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On July 16, 2000 at 00:16:50, Dann Corbit wrote:

>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.
>
>Looking at the succsess rate of A84 with e3-Be2 line...Amir's efforts
> are less than fair in my humple opinion.



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