Author: Bas Hamstra
Date: 14:52:49 10/27/00
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On October 26, 2000 at 12:57:08, Jeroen Noomen wrote: >On October 23, 2000 at 16:53:03, Christophe Theron wrote: > >Hi Bas, > >>>It depends on you definition if you call that line a killerline. My >>>definition of a killer line happens to be exactly the one that Ed Schroeder >>>has, isn't that a coincidence? In my book a line is a killerline if it >>>contains several non-theory moves that are only meant to trap the opponent >>>engine. Of course you CAN call such moves "novelties". > >The game Tiger-Tao WAS theory. Not played in games, but the moves up to Qd4! >can be found in many theoretical works. I believe it is even an old analysis >by Paul Keres. Seems that even the 'old' masters are pretty much right with >their evaluation :-)) Yes, the first 2 moves were theory, I have never denied that 1. e4 is a fine theoretical move. However the question is: are the moves following Nc2 also theory? >So I disagree this is a non-theoretical line. Besides, if you had many games in >your book that have been played, Tao would have avoided this mistake. Since Tao >was already out of book after 5. Nd5! >Anyway, this is the difference between books based on games and my books: I >spent a lot of effort to implement novelties, analysis and improvements on >grandmaster games. This is a tough job, I can tell you. For me it is fun to do. >See for example my Rb1! novelty in the game Tiger vs. Junior at the WCCC in Good books matter and I didn't have one. You did a great job. And I am proud of the crushing opening my engine played against Xinix, the latter having a 150Mb book. BTW next time we should play a couple of Blitz games ourselves :-) I tried to play Vincent, but he would only do it if he could play blindfolded. However yesterday I noticed that this can be rather dangerous. I nearly crashed when I was trying to play a blindfolded game by mobile phone while driving a car... Ciao, Bas.
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