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Subject: Re: use Rebel

Author: Robert Raese

Date: 19:35:12 05/31/01

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On May 30, 2001 at 22:28:59, eric guttenberg wrote:

>1600's drawing easily against the Tigers? I don't understand, since as a
>1700 player I almost never get a draw against them.
>
>Unless I ask for a draw. I have found out that if I begin to ask for a
>draw as soon as the program is out of book, the Tigers will frequently
>accept. I have had a number of 15 or 16 move draws in that way but I
>have hardly ever gotten an honest draw.
>
>eric

another one i've seen a "1700" level player pull is he'll choose opening
variations that lead to sort of simple symmetrical positions where almost all
the major pieces are swapped out, then he plays a simple endgame to a draw.  i
watched a "1700" player do this about 8 times in one day against Tiger 14.  he
_lost_ all the games where he couldn't get his type of opening, but when he got
a simple symmetrical one, the draw became predictable.  this is against a 3000
rated AMD machine on ICC, to put it in context.  the time control, game in 15 OR
game in 5.

so i'm wondering if engine learning doesn't learn because tiger never really
finds itself in a "bad" position.?



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