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

Author: blass uri

Date: 16:27:17 07/31/00

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On July 31, 2000 at 18:38:14, ujecrh wrote:

>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

The reason is clear.
It was before the end of the tournament and the programmers did not want the
opponents to know that they are playing against a new version.

This was not fair because I guess that kasparov believed that he was playing
against Genius2 and played based on the assumption that the opponent is going to
do mistakes that Genius2 does.

I believe that it is possible that kasparov could play better without this
assumption.


>
>Anyway, as we already mentionned there is probably not a huge difference (apart
>from the playing style) between G2 and G6.x

There is a difference between Genius2 and Genius3.
Genius3 has a clearly better rating by the ssdf list.

There is not big difference between the rating of Genius3 and the later Genius
programs.

Uri



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