Author: Baldomero Garcia, Jr.
Date: 12:04:00 07/16/00
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On July 14, 2000 at 15:49:33, blass uri wrote: >On July 14, 2000 at 14:26:54, José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba wrote: > >>On July 14, 2000 at 13:06:59, Baldomero Garcia, Jr. wrote: >> >> I do not understand why these grandmasters do not use their home-prepared >>opening novelties against the machine. Perhaps they overestimate the computer's >>book because it is big, but it is one of the program's weakest points. > >The problem is that they cannot predict the opening of the machine when they can >predict better the opening of opponent humans. > >It is not so simple to get advantage out of book against the machine. >Kasparov also tried to get out of book so I guess that they know that the >machine's book is not the weakest part of the machine. > >I think that the weakest point of programs is playing against king attacks and >the only game that Junior lost was because of a king attack. > >Uri In one article on "Inside Chess", Yasser Seirawan states that when he talked to several programmers, he said that they were actually relieved when opponents got out of the book early. I think that although the computer's opening book might be huge compared to that of a GM, the GM has a better understanding of the positions he/she is familiar with. When they get out of the book early, they end up in positions they are not familiar with and it may be more difficult to get an advantage. Baldo
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