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Subject: Re: Have You seen this: quite unbelievable!

Author: Vincent Diepeveen

Date: 10:47:43 01/31/01

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On January 31, 2001 at 11:04:05, Enrique Irazoqui wrote:

>On January 31, 2001 at 09:29:49, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:
>
>>On January 31, 2001 at 08:35:34, Sandro Necchi wrote:
>>
>>>On January 31, 2001 at 01:00:18, Jouni Uski wrote:
>>>
>>>>http://www.computerschach.de/tourn/cad2001/cad2001.htm
>>>>
>>>>In Gadeques tournament Deep Fritz - Shredder 5 ended 10-10. But 14 games were
>>>>won by white! And I thought, that whites advantage is minimal in computer chess.
>>>>Have programs killer books or what?
>>>
>>>As far as Shredder 5.0 is concerned there are no killer variations. The book is
>>>made mainly for the human players and with a lot of alternatives to make it play
>>>different lines. There are very few very long variations. Of course there are
>>>good move against weak ones, but not deep variations.
>>>So, it is a sort of compromise to make the program fun to play with.
>>>Since we drew 6 games and lost 7, there is still a a lot of room for
>>>improvements...
>>>
>>>Sandro Necchi
>>>>
>>>>Jouni
>>
>>I'm saving this message to quote later in my life.
>
>You can dump it. In my games, Shredder 5 didn't play one single killer line.
>
>Enrique


What is your definition of a killer line?

A definition of mine could be: "knowing in advance that you make a full
point with it against a certain program X1 which is having book X2".

I remember 60 moves killer lines in mchess






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