Author: George Tsavdaris
Date: 03:54:59 06/28/03
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>> >> Hi Helmut >> As mentioned on an earlier occasion, we have cancelled >> the King's Gambit from the book remis.ctg but it might >> indeed be that this book does not at all suit to the >> playing style of Junior8. We shall see after 70 rounds. >> Kurt > >Even so, the point of the tests is to establish engine strength and keep all >other variables constant, correct? > >I just can't validate the argument that engine X is unfairly suffering from a >standard opening book under a test such as this (aimed at engine comparison >only, not engine + its own opening book + gui (where applicable.) > >Especially with a book like remis.ctg. Any engine that suffers from this book >(unduly) is not very well rounded. > No, i think you are wrong. Junior opening book is prepared specifially for Junior8's play, and with this opening book Junior 8 must play (Like all other commercial engines and perhaps some amateur). And like Kasparov/Kramnik and everybody else that learn opening lines that suits to their style. They play in the tournaments with their opening choices and not with a general opening variety. If M.Tal played with the opening ideas of Capablanca then Tal whould not give us all the magic games he did. Because the Junior8.ctg has been tested to end at positions that favor Junior8 and Junior8 understands. I strongly believe that if Kasparov played openings only from Remis-book for example then he would be 25-30 Elo points lower. (Of cource if the others did that, they would be 40-60 Elo lower).
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