Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 06:42:48 10/28/03
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On October 27, 2003 at 20:26:51, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: >On October 27, 2003 at 12:50:57, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >The important thing you missed. My question to Noomen was very clearly: > >"why do you play 1.e4 with years of preparation for Rebel + Tiger >and not with Sjeng" > >Somehow i miss the name 'diep' in the question. > >So focus upon the subject please, do we agree here? No. If you look at _my_ history with Cray Blitz you will see that I discovered that we played better with 1. d4 as white. We had some reasonable positional knowledge that helped in the more strategic openings that arise from 1. d4. I didn't do it because I thought I was hurting my chances of winning... I did it because I thought it _helped_. I assume Jeroen did the same thing. Perhaps some of his 1. e4 lines led Sjeng into positions it didn't like or understand or play very well. It would be natural to try to avoid them. I have this horrible tendency to believe that most people do their very best when helping others. I can't imagine him intentionally preparing a book for Sjeng that would decrease its chances of winning. Now if you want to argue that one book author should not be allowed to prepare an opening book for three different programs, there I agree 100%. I can't contribute significant pieces of code to three different programs and have them all play in ICCA events. I don't see why someone can contribute three significant opening books (which can go as deep as 20 moves in a game that may only last 40 moves). The ICCA is completely out of touch with common sense here, mainly because of $$$ I assume. What is happening is wrong. But it isn't wrong because Jeroen is trying to make Sjeng lose. It is wrong because one person is helping _three_ programs to win. That is bogus. The ICCA _knows_ it is bogus. But they let it continue, for reasons only they have.
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