Author: Michel Langeveld
Date: 12:23:03 09/23/03
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>>>>Kure told he usually enters around 2000 bookmoves an hour. >> >>>If your claims is correct then it means that he cannot have a good book. >>>You cannot be sure of no errors with 2000 moves per hour. >> >If Alex does as you claim, there will be _plenty_ of errors. He has to type >one move every two seconds, with +zero+ time for analysis. At that typing >rate, I'll bet most any amount of money you want that the book won't even >+parse+ cleanly, due to either his typos or typos in the analysis he is >typing madly... > >Your math just doesn't stand up to even simple scrutiny. I know that Alex doesn't enter the moves with typing e2-e4 in an editor but clicks the moves with the mouse in the interface. I think he uses also specialized paperbooks for this (which he don't show during a tournament ofcourse) and his own analytical insight and Fritz. I have the feeling that Alex, since he can program himself, also (let) made some tools to add certain games and moves to the Fritz book without humanintervention :-) Alex told me in Maastricht (when I was there with Crafty) some numbers of his productivity. My memory is not my strongest point, and especially not in these adrialine-days, but I think that in that time I could add 500 moves handtyping with notepad for the Crafty book on a long evening hard working and Alex could _click_ (with his mouse in the Fritz interface) the same number in 1 hour. The Crafty book I used in that time contained 20k moves. Alex is amazing fast ... also with Blitz chess he is amazing fast ... and remember, since he works in the Fritz interface, this gives he much advantages in numerous ways. But luckily ... in this tournament Crafty (with cute hardware and all 6 men available in that time) could draw against Fritz in the reversed sicilian :-). I think that to these particulair lines a massive numerous of openingbook moves are entered to prevent this in future and that Frans improved middlegame and endgame of this kind of positions a lot. Michel \ who had the honour to operate Crafty on WMCC 2001 ... \ the the single-and-multi-processor-non-hyperthreading-event-champion event
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