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Subject: Re: A personal thought regarding the opening books

Author: Miguel A. Ballicora

Date: 06:33:56 01/28/03

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On January 28, 2003 at 08:58:57, K. Burcham wrote:

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>
>exactly my feelings too Omid.
>
>One thing I cant understand is why these opening books have such problems this
>late in life. Running some of these opening book lines is like playing Kasparov
>with an old 386 33mhz. It would seem to me that mhz, ram, operating systems,
>most chess programs, egtbs, etc. have been developed to a competitive level.
>It seems the weakest link is the opening books. I agree with Omid. someone needs
>to get these lines out of these books.
>
>Why hasnt Kasparov played this D45 opening before against anand, karpov?
>It killed Deep Junior X---it would kill these other GM too right?
>wrong!!!! Kasparov wouldnt begin to play this low level opening in tournament
>play. Kasparov only played this opening because when he saw this in the program
>he had prior to game, he laughed.

This is NOT a low level opening. This is a very modern and _dynamic_ opening
that offers a lot of fight and sharp play. Kasparov played other dynamic
openings against Karpov and Anand, he is changing permanently. In fact, this
opening is very suitable to Kasparov's style, as opposed to the crap he played
against DB.

>Now what worries me, How many more of these losing opening lines are in Deep
>Junior X book? If Kasparov has the energy and time to find these losing lines,
>and if there are more of these opening lines that play into losing positions,
>then it is possible that DJX could lose all the games.

Kasparov is the best opening player of all time by orders of magnitude. He has
trounced other GMs is similar fashion quickly, I do not see why he would not do
the same against a computer opening book based on games of those same GMs!

My hypothesis is that if Kasparov comes back to his style, playing sharp in the
opening with novelties, he is capable of destroying the machine easily. Depth is
irrelevant, because the machine would never reach the depth that Kasparov
reached in his home analysis. He did not do that against DB and waived the
strongest part of his play: The opening.

DB team knew that and played 2.c3 against the sicilian.

Miguel





>kburcham



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