Author: Uri Blass
Date: 06:37:05 02/19/03
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On February 19, 2003 at 09:13:04, Amir Ban wrote: >On February 18, 2003 at 01:36:07, Bertil Eklund wrote: > >>On February 17, 2003 at 13:54:21, Rajen Gupta wrote: >> >>>"Boris Alterman dismissed a version that won big against a well-known SSDF star >>>as being based on nothing more than cheap tactics, and recommended a version >>>based on a match that it actually lost". >>> >> >>This is of course absolute nonsense and probably a pure lie. Of course it is >>only a way to say that it is weaker then the other top-engines and we hope to >>sell it on the merits of the Kasparov match. >> >>Bertil > >What makes you say that ? > >Amir I guess that the opinion that you cannot beat a ssdf star based on nothing more than cheap tactics. I do not say that it is illogical to reject a version inspite of better results in comp-comp games but the explanation should not be this explanation. You can say that analysis of the games showed that the version that won was lucky to take advantage of tactical mistakes of the computer opponent and another version did better positional moves but even in that case the sentence sound tooo extreme to me. It may be interesting if you give the games. Do you plan to give the games sometime in the future? What are your plans for the future? Do you plan to release Junior8 or do you plan to win the WCCC before releasing it? If releasing Junior8 reduce the chances to win WCCC and getting another match with the world champion then it may be a reason not to do it. Uri
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