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Subject: Re: subject = Noomen book.

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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