Author: Robert Henry Durrett
Date: 08:22:56 06/03/02
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On June 03, 2002 at 00:17:43, Uri Blass wrote: >On June 02, 2002 at 22:15:52, Robert Henry Durrett wrote: > >>I forgot to mention: >> >>In the construction of DF's anti-Kramnik opening book, the construction likely >>began with a book initially made from a complete set of Kramnik's games. At >>least, that's the approach I would take in constructing the book. After the >>innitial book based on Kramnik's games was constructed, then improvements >>probably were found for each and every line favoring Kramnik. Perhaps this >>phase of the book development used a semi-automated process too, taking material >>from a large database of recent GM games. [ex: Megabase with non-GM games >>purged out.] There may be or may have been a team of HUMAN GMs involved in this >>process. >> >>[[This effort may be going on right now, or may be already completed.]] >> >>DF will be "fully prepared" for any opening Kramnik has ever played, or even >>dreamed about. >> >>Where is the **compensating** advantage for Kramnik to offset this HUGE >>advantage for DF? >> >>How could "allowing Kramnik to play with the computer for a few weeks" possibly >>offer sufficient compensation? > >It is more than enough compensation. > >I think that kramnik is going to have more problems against computer that he >knows nothing about it's weaknesses even if the computer did no preperation >against kramnik. > >Playing against the computer to learn it's weaknesses is very important. > >Book is not so important because at least with white it is easy to throw the >opponent out of book in few books with equality. > >Uri A pity that Kasparov was not given this compensation in his matches with DB. Bob D. :)
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