Author: Miguel A. Ballicora
Date: 12:04:23 05/04/01
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On May 04, 2001 at 14:39:22, Dann Corbit wrote: >On May 04, 2001 at 14:22:23, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: > >>On May 04, 2001 at 13:20:51, Dann Corbit wrote: >> >>>Prophecy: >>>You will win the next WCCC[*] >> >>No Billion NPS will save the game if you come out of book -1 or -2 >>Not having a 'cooked' book like the commercials have should be >>quite a disadvantage. >> >>Alternatively you could use a narrow book with high thresholds and >>let the hardware figure out the rest. Now _that_ could provide for >>some interesting stuff. Especially if you get singular extensions >>working again. > >Crafty's computer book is tiny. And well weeded. I think with that machine, >you might not need one. I know it is a stupid thing to say, but I would suspect >you might be ahead to simply do away with it. With that speed I would try to take out of book the computer opponent very early creating a book with openings like 1.b3, 1.b4 etc, that are not bad but not heavily analyzed. Then, I will see who does better in the opening with no book with such a difference in speed. Other chance is to go to semiclosed positions where a small disadvantage is never decisive, particularly against a computer that you are outsearching. Deep Blue Junior losing against Fritz should be an example. Going to, or allowing the Lasker-Pelikan (a.k.a. Sveshnikov) variation in the Sicilian is silly. When you are out of book, you can be winning of losing. That even happen to GMs! That's even true for human play if you are a better player, you don't wanna go for a theory fight unless you are also better in opening preparation (Polugaievsky, Kasparov etc. could be examples) Regards, Miguel
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