Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 20:29:37 10/28/03
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On October 28, 2003 at 21:46:57, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: >On October 28, 2003 at 11:27:27, Mogens Larsen wrote: > >>On October 28, 2003 at 09:54:13, Robert Hyatt wrote: >> >>>And perhaps he simply thinks Sjeng plays better with 1. d4 than with 1. e4. >> >>You gave the answer yourself. Sometimes it makes sense to deviate from a master >>plan. Also, I sincerely doubt it's possible to state for a fact that one opening >>move is better than another. Adaptation to variants is the key. The reason for >>chosing 1.d4 is probably little, but positive tournament experience against >>tough opponents. Therefore it makes sense to explore other options when you have >>the chance, ie. not too strong opposition and a not too important tournament. >> >>Just to make it clear. I'm not suggesting foul play against Deep Sjeng by >>Noomen. However, I do find the approach suboptimal from a book author >>perspective. >> >>Regards, >>Mogens > >the matter is not whether sjeng is better in 1.d4 or 1.e4 only, >the matter is that the 1.d4 book for sjeng is also very bad prepared. >I can compare some lines it plays with 1.d4 with the Arturo book and see >clearly that there a lot of lines played are not exactly very good. > >Then we see great lines played by the books used by rebel + tiger, which is very >undeniable. > >So i'm not saying that what Sjeng used is worse than a random PGN book or >whatever, but i'm noticing that what's used for Rebel + Tiger (2 completely >different styles of engines) is very similar and much better than the total >different book used for Sjeng. > >Though i commercially can understand the idea, from sportive viewpoint i find it >very disgusting. > >VERY VERY VERY DISGUSTING, especially if you hear leaked out scores of dual >sjeng when playing tiger (when it is equipped with the same book like sjeng). yada yada yada. _everybody_ beats tiger in "leaked" matches. Everybody beats Crafty in these matches. Fortunately, the so-called "results" are not that repeatable when real tournaments get played... CT is not a patsy, regardless of what you say. How did you do against Tiger? one of those very _rare_ losses??? This kind of nonsense is not close to funny...
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