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Subject: Re: El Conquistador defeated

Author: Harald Faber

Date: 08:35:33 07/21/01

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On July 21, 2001 at 08:24:08, Mike S. wrote:

>On July 21, 2001 at 08:06:27, Harald Faber wrote:
>
>>On July 21, 2001 at 06:36:37, Mike S. wrote:
>>
>>>He triumphs over South America's Grandmaster elite... but he can't stop the
>>>superior brain (P3/700 MHz, 24 MB Hash, Cock de Gorter-Book):
>>
>>I guess you mean that ironic.
>>What is Cock de Gorter book? A special book which you manipulated to win
>>against? :-)
>
>No, it is in it's original state as I found it on one of ChessBase's Magazine
>CDs (I forgot which one) some years ago, as it was made by Cock de Gorter. It's
>a good book IMO. I keep it write protected.
>
>But I think it will be possible to play this line against a lot of books. Of
>course Tiger was out of book after Bxf7+, but that's not my fault. I don't know
>if the original Tiger books would avoid this line, or play the Alekhine at all.
>If this is the case, you may call this victory somewhat "invalid" if you like.


I don't doubt that it is possible to win against the nowadays to programs.
But it would be better to demonstrate that in a more valid way. OK, this time
you are lucky, Aljechin is not in Tigers book but in GambitTigers. At longer
time control 9...Bxe6 would happen.


>I was aware of that, that's why I included the book information.
>
>I could try this at tournament time too... but hopefully someone else takes the
>effort. Btw. there is a number of top engines which are vulnarable to this line
>I think, not only Tiger.
>
>But you need comprehensive analysis, i.e. the king could go to g6.
>
>Regards,
>M.Scheidl



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