Author: Don Dailey
Date: 14:03:03 01/03/98
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On January 01, 1998 at 11:09:15, Jeroen Noomen wrote: > >> >>Nobody says Genius is a weak program because it has a boring playing >>style. >>The term boring I use wants to show that it is not always playing the >>best moves in the 1,3,5,7,9 iterations meanwhile it is SEEING all kinds >>of threads in the 2,4,6,8 iterations. This leads into a defending and >>not into an active playing style. > >Thorsten, > >This time I disagree! IMO Genius 5 plays very attractive chess, also >because the openingbook is a lot different compared to former books. >I think Cock de Gorter did a good job here. > >Seeing Genius play the Belgrade Gambit even made me bought a book on >this opening (by Lev Gutman) and I included it in my repertoire. I just >hope no dutch player will read this thread, otherwise my next Belgrade >game could be severly punished.... :))) > >Regards, Jeroen I have to agree. I don't equate active play with strength or beauty at all, sometimes just the opposite. Of all the players I have known the aggressive active ones tended more often to be less imaginative, they usually wanted mate or piece wins, simple stuff they could calculate. But now always. I've know some brilliant tacticians too. -- Don
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