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Subject: Re: Genius 3, still amongst the tops!!!

Author: blass uri

Date: 05:20:11 07/30/00

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On July 30, 2000 at 04:58:29, ujecrh wrote:

>On July 30, 2000 at 01:41:15, blass uri wrote:
>>
>>Sorry but Genius3 was the one of the best programs against humans.
>>
>
>You probably know things that I don't because one thing I am sure is that, at
>least R.Lang clearly stated the change of direction when G4 was released. G3 had
>some bad loss against players like Vaisser, Anand or Nikolic who successfully
>played slow games against it and customers wanted a more risky style.

I know that genius3 won nikolic in the same tournament that it won kasparov.

Only anand could stop it.
I do not know about the games against Vaisser.

I did not buy later version of Genius3 because I did not hear about significant
improvements.

>But it does not really matter.
>
>>Genius3(p90) won kasparov 1.5:.5 in game/25(kasparov did not know that he plays
>>against a new version and thought that he was playing against Genius2)
>>
>
>Genius 3 was not released. It happened in fact at the intel PCA in London
>*before* G3 was released (it was named in my local chess magazine Genius 2.9!)

I have Genius3 and it has the database of the games and they called it
ChessGenius3 in the database and not Genius2.9.

>but I agree that it was probably almost the same as the commercial engine that
>followed, the win over Kasparov was the ideal advertisement.
>
>>In another match later kasparov won Genius3(p120) 1.5:.5
>
>Exactly. Once well known, genius 3 became a rather easy target for GMs patially
>because of its conservative style.

losing 1.5:.5 against kasparov with p120 is not easy.
kasparov was afraid of losing in the first game because Genius3 had a better
position in the first game inspite of the fact that kasparov could prepare for
the match.

I think that genius3 lost the game because of some tactical bug that does not
happen often to it(I analyzed the game with Genius3 and I remember that in this
game the evaluation of Genius proved that it could not see some tactics that
should be simple for computers but unfortunately I do not remember the game and
do not have it near me).

I also remember that I read that Genius3 got a good result against humans
including a win against nunn.

Uri



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