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Subject: Re: Secret Buttons

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 04:16:03 02/24/03

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On February 24, 2003 at 07:00:47, Rolf Tueschen wrote:

>On February 23, 2003 at 11:59:41, Thorsten Czub wrote:
>
>>Kein Grund ins Sektierertum zu verfallen.
>
>Thorsten, what are you doing all day long? Are you not even aware of? Look into
>your own comments on the progress of the final round in Paderborn. It was a
>reveiling confession about your own emotions about the expected or feared
>result. I wished that you could take all that with more objectivity. Then with
>your experience you were a really good expert. Also didn't you notice your own
>insinuating of some stuff not so koscher?
>
>Fact is that Stefan already in Maastricht let JUNIOR have it's spin, when the
>planned show event against Kasparov already was near. Yesterday's lost is
>something that no linger counted because Fritz already was through. I still ask
>if there isn't a sort of button the operator could secretely push for such
>decisions, "go for the kill", "now only seek a draw by all means even if there
>might be a win" etc.? Because it's strange. There was a period when both, YACE
>and SHREDDER repeated motifs and moves and then suddenly after the end in the
>FRITZ game they went into a different mode. Suddenly Yace took c2 and the whole
>game went into a different essence.
>
>I was always sure that Stefan had such features because SHREDDER was always
>worse the moment other operators did their work. This is not by chance if it
>happens 4 or 5 times in a row. These reflections have nothing to do with
>conspiracy fairy tales!

Better opening preperation may be the explanation.
I guess that stefan has statistics about results based on opponent and opening
for a lot of opponents and when shredder plays against an opponent it can often
use opening choice when statistics tells him that he has better chances.

Uri



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