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Subject: Re: Kasparov-Fritz - The Opening

Author: jefkaan

Date: 10:31:29 11/18/03

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On November 18, 2003 at 13:03:38, jefkaan wrote:

>7 ..a5 wasnt good; any *good* book would have
>preferred 7.. g6

whereby i might add that Fritz may have been influence
by the game Reshevsky-Keres, world championship 1948 which
was exactly like Kasparov Fritz including 11. Be7,
which gets a !? by ChessAssistant (.. g6 is preferred,
at least in my CA 7.1 database, whereby ChessTigerIII
is finding Ndb8!? by own analysis.

Then a small comment about the ridiculous move 15.. Be7??
(personally i dont think Bd6 was that bad, but maybe
i overlook something); after Kasparovs Rb1, why didnt
Fritz play Bb8, i wonder (probably the plan already
the 'plan', eg. calculated line after the move Bd6).
For example 15.. Bb8 16. Na5 Ne8! 17 Bb4 Qg5! etc. (0-1)

Probably Fr. saw some other danger (?), and then without
any embarrasment played Be7?? back (maybe it wouldn't
be a bad idea for the programmers to give a move playing
'backwards' ie to the same field as they came from, one move
ago, a *penalty* (except in zugzwang, eg. in the endgame)?) .
Anyway it looks like this Fritz strangled itself in its nullmove
algorithms or something like that; conclusion: poor book & still
not such a good engine; hurray, still some work to do !
:)



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