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Subject: Re: Movei - Chess System Tal 2 : 2-6 with 1 draw

Author: Peter Berger

Date: 13:07:53 11/08/03

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On November 08, 2003 at 10:48:13, Drexel,Michael wrote:

>On November 08, 2003 at 06:34:14, Peter Berger wrote:
>
>>This is the second match in (planned at least ;) ) a little series between
>>modern middle-class amateur engines and old professionals.
>>(Movei- Genius 2 1-6, 1 draw).
>
>This is a very good idea, Peter. You should continue these tests until Uri
>finally removes those unsound lines from his book.
>Poor Movei...
>
>Michael

Hi Michael,

I am not doing these matches to prove anything, I do it for fun.

There is the danger that it could be mistaken as anti-movei bickering ( I know
you didn't suggest it, and Uri knows it isn't). But it could be misleading to
see several match results when movei might lose most of them.

Movei is a reasonably strong middle-class amateur engine these days and it was
just chosen as an example for this group of engines. I thought about sending
results to Uri only, but I know some people enjoy looking at these games.

Having a relatively weak opening book is a common problem for this group of
engines. Btw, Uri's approach has its advantages too. In the last match against
Genius it got one point for free when Genius's book had a long line that led to
an immediate loss (not because the line was bad itself ,but because it was too
complicated to find the moves once it was out of book), while Movei had no
problems to find the moves to react.

I agree the line with Qe7 isn't to be recommended with the short line movei has
in its book, but for example in the games with white several of the unusual
lines worked quite well for it.

Peter



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