Author: Amir Ban
Date: 09:55:17 12/30/97
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On December 29, 1997 at 13:25:57, Chris Whittington wrote: > >On December 29, 1997 at 12:57:52, Jeroen Noomen wrote: > >>Furthermore I talked to Sandro Necchi a few years ago at the AEGON >>Tournament. On my question why MCP did so well in testmatches (he stated >>MCP would beat Genius 3 by a margin of 90%), he simply replied 'because >>we are outbooking Genius'. What do you think of that!? > >I wonder if he said it 30 times or if its just that you and Ed have >repeated it 30 times. Yes we all know about this converstaion. we've >read it 30 times. > >I don't know what I think about it. Thorsten says lots of things about >the design of CSTal which are not correct. I'ld prefer to go on what >Marty Hirsch says, not one of his support team. Also opening book >tweakers tend to exagerate their contribution to the 200 extra ELO >points claimed each year. > > When MCPro6 first got listed on SSDF I noticed its result against Genius 3: 15.5:4.5. Quite a result. It was obvious to me at the time that they did a job on Genius, but I assumed that they did some serious and legitimate work of uncovering the weaknesses of CG3. Now I'm not so sure what was done to get this result ... The same MCPro6, BTW, lost the SSDF match to both CG4 and CG5. What would be the logical explanation ? Amir
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