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Subject: Re: Did you noticed that these games are repeated with reversed colours!

Author: Ulrich Tuerke

Date: 02:10:49 10/22/03

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On October 21, 2003 at 17:52:43, Günther Simon wrote:

>>>>Yes, but if you check all the games played by the SSDF or any other two engines,
>>>>there is always one side that stand better at the end of the Opening, but at
>>>>least we know that these Openings were NOT made by chess Playes rated less than
>>>>2600 :-)
>>>
>>>That's not the point. You force engines to follow a bookline for over 45 moves,
>>>then sometimes the first move out of book is a resign. What's the point if the
>>>program didn't have any choice before ( and neither did the opponent) ?
>>>
>>>Tony
>>
>>
>>
>>You are wrong my friend at the beginning of the match I set it up to 20 games
>>and then under the Option I chose repeat start position with colors switched, I
>>didn't select any games The Arena GUI did automatically. And if you checked more
>>carefully you will notice that game 1 and 2 and so 3 and 4 and so on but with
>>colors reversed. Therefore, there was no advantage for either engine at all.
>>
>>
>>Pichard
>
>That's irrelevant and Tony did not speak of an advantage for a certain
>opponent but of a disadvantage for _both_ opponents in a match with
>a book that contains a lot of bad+long lines.
>Changin' colours doesnt help to make the book and the situation
>better.
>By that way you can almost produce even results between opponents,
>which differ a lot in strength...


... and that's exactly, what had happened.

Uli

>
>Regards,
>Günther



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