Author: ujecrh
Date: 15:38:14 07/31/00
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On July 30, 2000 at 08:20:11, blass uri wrote: > >Only anand could stop it. >I do not know about the games against Vaisser. It was I think at Aubervillier tournament but I do not quite remember the year. > >I did not buy later version of Genius3 because I did not hear about significant >improvements. That's true and it is a shame because the Genius serie was a very good one. > >>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. That was an intermediate version prior to Genius 3, for example look at the following article, they even call it genius 2 : http://www.chessandcheckers.com/clips.htm Anyway, as we already mentionned there is probably not a huge difference (apart from the playing style) between G2 and G6.x > >>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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