Author: Bas Hamstra
Date: 16:04:52 05/20/01
Congratulations to the two clear winners, who never fail to show up and manage to prove over and over how strong they are. And what an incredibly strong midfield, no easy wins here. What makes the Leiden tournaments so unique is the fact that the programmers talk so openly about the insides of their programs. I can't wait to implement Frans's tip, that whenever there is a check possible in the root position, the game is already won. Strategically, of course. And this holds not only for Fritz, but for *any* program! From Johan I learnt (and I am not quite sure I can throw this in the open, he might never talk to me again) that it doesn't matter how deep you search or what kind of pruning you do. Or even how your parameters are tuned. Not at all! The *only* thing that counts is the number of positions you have seen. The programmer of Goliath wasn't there, but apparently the lesson to be learnt here was: always display your nps multiplied by 10, to impress your opponent. To the chapter depress (in stead of impress) your opponent I reckon "No, I have not tested it, it hasn't played any games yet". I am not saying the programmer of IsiChess said this, and I am not saying he didn't. I won't mention names here. But *someone* did. Roland also had a very important suggestion: you *might* want to take more than one day to implement 99 to do's, especially if it it the last day before the tournament. All in all, much to think about. For the first time Tao played with a quality book, made by Cock the Gorter. After I set book option "romantic" very interesting openings showed up. Ancient, long forgotten king gambit's right out of the secret Morpy archives. None ever heard of them, because they were in a corner of the upper shelve in the basement of "De Slechte" (second hand book store). Now does Jeroen go on safari like this? Cock does! Probably it was not even a book, but rather a perkament roll that had fallen behind the Encyclopedia Brittanica in 1806. AD, let's not exaggerate. Suddenly I remember I was a bit angry in october, when GT killed Tao with a book trick. To my defense I can say a) I am an amateur b) I'm from Groningen, I know nothing c) Tao played against 2x faster hardware (PIII-500) at any time d) I was on the other side of the board Ciao! Bas.
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