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Subject: Re: odyssee2001-tournament: participants

Author: José Carlos

Date: 06:50:49 01/02/01

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On January 01, 2001 at 09:12:30, Alexander Kure wrote:

>On January 01, 2001 at 06:31:44, Thorsten Czub wrote:
>
>[..]
>
>>If you e.g. take crafty, i would like to contact bob and other
>>crafty-experts themselves and ask them, so that it is OK for THEM.
>
>What will you ask them?
>The problem with all these programs running under Fritz is that they have no
>good opening book. They have to use one of mine (Fritz 6, Nimzo 7.32, Nimzo 8 or
>even Deep Fritz) to compete at equal terms, as can be seen by their SSDF
>performance. As there are some programs in the list running under Fritz what
>will you do:
>
>- let them play all with the same book
>- assign each program randomly one of the books mentioned above
>
>>this all takes time. some people are in holidays.
>>but it will work in the end. We don't have to be 100%
>>precise. this is no world-computer-chess-championship.
>>but i will give my best to make it as accurate as i can.
>>of course any participants or kibitz has
>>the right to criticize.
>
>I do not criticize - at least not yet ;-)
>I am simply asking questions
>
>>to come back to your comments concerning genius:
>>i have created a new style for genius6.5 that seems to make it significantly
>>stronger. i want to test if genius is capable to "come back" with a change
>>of its playing strength. IMO richard threw the thing to early.
>>the reason genius is weaker is a) it gets outsearched b) its completely
>>passive playing style.
>>
>>the thing with the others outsearching genius can be changed, and the passive
>>playing style thing can be changed. my style is IMO as good as fritz,
>>and will hopefully increase genius' playing-strength.
>>
>>therefore i want to use this experimental version. we all know how strong
>>genius is, we can read it in ssdf-lists. so bringing normal genius
>>into the field would give a kind of reference, but i have no doubt that
>>genius would not have any chance. the opening book and the search and the style
>>is overtaken by time.
>>therefore i want to play with MY genius-version.
>
>Sounds reasonable. I have no problem with your decision.
>I will work on a proper opening book for Genius if you are willing to use it.

  It would be great if such a book was free for the general public. Will you
offer it for download anywhere?

  Thanks in advance,

  José C.

>Greetings
>Alex



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