Author: Uri Blass
Date: 08:15:51 08/24/00
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On August 24, 2000 at 11:05:59, Christian Pike wrote: >On August 24, 2000 at 10:47:34, Gordon Rattray wrote: > >>I totally disagree. The tournament winner should be the program that plays the >>best chess. Playing the opening is part of a chess game! > >but the opening is mostly not chosen by the program itself, but in preparation >by the advisor. > >> You can't just skip >>this phase by starting with a chosen position - that's not true chess. > >i would throw the opponent early out of book. not setup a special position. >but throwing them early out of book with a rare move. This may be a good idea if you believe that your engine is clearly better than the opponent. >then we can see how strong the engines are. >the advisors often forget that the engine has to win that game, not themselves. >and that the opponent has also a prepared opening book. They do not forget it. They probably believe that they prepared a better opening book than the other side otherwise they will tell the engine to play early a rare move > >what i often see >is that both programs follow very deep lines. nobody (neither team A nor >team B ) has really control over the situation, and any strange line >comes on board. i see no sense in such a russian-roulette. >it may a good random-generator, but i would like to see >rebel or tiger win or lose their games because of the engines strength >and not because of some weir lines. The engine is important. Shredder saved lost position and did draws because of the engine. You cannot be the champion with a weak engine because the opponent will throw you early out of book in this case. <snipped> >but i see always tiger / rebel losing due to opening stuff. >we should dope jeroen ! They usually do not lose only becuase of book. Uri
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