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Subject: Re: odyssee2001-tournament: participants

Author: Thorsten Czub

Date: 03:51:09 01/01/01

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On January 01, 2001 at 06:40:38, Uri Blass wrote:
>Do you also think that Genius3 is the best engine?
>I am surprised to hear it because I thought that later versions are not weaker
>than genius3.
>
>I see no reason for the programmer to downgrade the engine.
>
>I understood from the ssdf list that there is only a small difference between
>genius3 and later versions but I did not think that the programmer downgrade the
>engine.
>
>I did not buy Genius4 5 or 6 because there was no significant improvement but I
>did not think that the change is negative.
>
>I also do not expect genius3 with Special book to be at the same level as the
>top programs because it is an old program(from 1994) and I know that there was
>significant improvement in other programs.
>
>Uri

my genius style makes genius significantly stronger.

if alexander can make a good book for it, why not.
ONE reason why genius elo decreased was of course the book.
they ALL autoplayed against genius in those days. they all have
anti-genius-book-lines in their opening book.
genius was not only outsearched by null-move, outstyled by the aggressive
changes of the opponents, but also outbooked.

it was a kind of : ALL against Richard.

pity was, that richard had no strong team on the other side to defend.
and to strike back.
fighting alone against the rest of the others using genius as a reference
is a very depressive job. maybe ONE reason why frans morsch has problems
in our days. today fritz is the reference.
we will see if in a few months tiger or others are the reference.
maybe shredder5 ?





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