Author: Uri Blass
Date: 21:35:52 04/18/02
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On April 18, 2002 at 21:40:18, Slater Wold wrote: >On April 18, 2002 at 20:31:24, Vine Smith wrote: > >>On April 18, 2002 at 19:52:25, Timothy J. Frohlick wrote: >> >>>Rex, >>> >>>You might be correct Sir. However, Smirin is playing drawish chess. >>>Nevertheless, Tiger can certainly kick my butt. >>> >>>Tim, a satisfied Tiger 14.0 owner >>> >>>On April 18, 2002 at 19:42:42, Rex wrote: >>> >>>>Tiger is the only program the GM's hope to keep up with. >> >>"Smirin is playing drawish chess"?! You've got to be kidding! There was nothing >>drawish about the drastic defeat he inflicted on Shredder, and he certainly was >>not to blame for Hiarcs' choice of the Exchange Variation of the King's Indian >>in the second game (where he got a much better position anyway). And Junior must >>be running on a lucky processor to have escaped losing a piece down versus >>Smirin in the last game. If it weren't for the truncated time control, Smirin >>could be leading 3-0. >>Nonetheless, Tiger may present some new problems. Not only its "anti-human" >>setting, but also the book, both work together to avoid closed positions. When a >>couple of Argentine GMs tried to get away with the Old Benoni last year, Tiger >>just played 5.f4 (or at move 6, I can't exactly remember) and reopened the >>position, winning both times. The f4 move wasn't objectively best according to >>theory, but it was best for a program playing a human, and this is the kind of >>approach needed against Smirin, who obviously knows a few things about typical >>program weaknesses. >> >>Regards, >>Vine Smith > >If Christophe or Ed, or even Noomen has a hand in this, the book will be 100x >better than what we've seen thus far. I guess that they are going to have hands in the book in the tiger's games. I also think that the mistakes that the programs did were after book. I also think that the quality of the engines is more important than the book. > >CT will be a tough opponent. But it does share it's fair chance of losing. >Depends on the opening, but I'd guess (if Smirin knows anything about CT) it'll >be drawn. If christophe changed CT enough then smirin may know nothing about it. Uri
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