Author: Rolf Tueschen
Date: 08:40:29 12/17/02
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On December 17, 2002 at 09:22:54, Uri Blass wrote: >On December 17, 2002 at 08:32:20, Bob Durrett wrote: > >>On December 16, 2002 at 17:49:08, John Sidles wrote: >> >><snip> >> >>>> So on the average you can say 2800 or a bit more, >>>> but it matters what you get. If you get a position >>>> like what I had in game five then no human can fight it. >>>> But if you get what I had in game two then you have >>>> a chance. It very much depends on the opening stage. >> >><snip> >> >>I believe Kramnik was being honest when he said, in effect, that the opening >>book is very very important. >> >>Perhaps the entire chess programming community has UNDERESTIMATED the importance >>of opening books ??? [in games vs the top GMs] >> >>Bob D. > >I do not believe it. > >Not the opening book won the match but kramnik lost the match by doing stupid >blunders. > >Uri Correct, but still, what would a computer program do without these beautiful books? Now I expect the usual spin doctors telling me that programs already played 20 moves of GM chess without books - but I don't believe them. If that happens then the books are somewhere hidden. ;) Rolf Tueschen
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