Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 19:49:32 04/24/01
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On April 24, 2001 at 14:05:07, Robert Hyatt wrote: >I think the other question is the issue... can GT withstand DB? Remember that >in the original games played against commercial programs in 1997, DB was >crushing them all. And it was crushing them all by playing kingside attacks. >That was Hsu's main criticism of Genius and Rebel.. they were totally oblivious >to the coming storm, until it hit. The games were not endgames. They were >middlegame crushes. GT seems to be no better than anybody else at seeing >attacks against itself. In fact, it often self-attacks by being too aggressive. >I think against DB that would be suicide. I think I missed seeing the PGN's of these games, Bob. I don't doubt that there were some games played by something against something, but I don't think that a third-hand evaluation of these matches is worth anything, and I think that the best thing to do would be to forget that they were ever played. Anything said about those games is not just hearsay, it's hearsay about hearsay. bruce
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