Author: Mike S.
Date: 16:08:41 06/02/02
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On June 02, 2002 at 18:08:01, Dante Rosati wrote: >Perhaps human/computer matches should be run without the computer using books >and databases but only algorithms. Is such a thing ever done? Hopefully not. I that case, the human would have the unfair advantage of some hundred years chess history and opening theory knowledge. Don't forget, a master knows very many opening variants he either memorized, or knows like memorized from playing and studying them hundreds of times. So he *has* his opening knowledge always. What has been done, are comp-comp tournament without opening books, which has repeatedly shown that theory variants were found by engine calculation. In addition to that, current engines - especially The King as it seems - are quite creative in developing their own gambit continuations after leaving their book. These are common observations. But against a GM, at least if he knew that the program has no book available, this would be a big disadvantage. I wouldn't be surprised if the GM could win 100%. He probably could go for sharp tactical variations in this case (unlike when playing against a good book), where "obvious" replies have been refuted by deep theory analysis. I'm sure a Grandmaster knows a lot of such variations... I don't :o) Regards, M.Scheidl
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