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Subject: Re: Brutus have palyed a really bad opening line... (pgn so far)

Author: George Tsavdaris

Date: 09:12:32 11/25/03

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On November 25, 2003 at 12:05:39, Djordje Vidanovic wrote:

>On November 25, 2003 at 11:23:25, Bob Durrett wrote:
>
>>On November 25, 2003 at 11:01:34, Jonas Bylund wrote:
>>
>>>[Event "ICS Unrated Standard match"]
>>>[Site "chessclub.com"]
>>>[Date "2002.04.16"]
>>>[Round "-"]
>>>[White "*Shredder(C)"]
>>>[Black "*Brutus(C)"]
>>>[Result "*"]
>>>[WhiteElo "0"]
>>>[BlackElo "0"]
>>>[TimeControl "7200"]
>>>
>>>1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 a6 6. Bg5 e6 7. f4 Qb6 8.
>>>Nb3 Be7 9. Qf3 Nbd7 10. O-O-O Qc7 11. Kb1 b5 12. Bd3 Bb7 13. a3 O-O-O??? 14.
>>>Qe2 Kb8 15. Rhf1 h6 16. Bh4 g5 17. Be1 gxf4 18. Rxf4 Rdg8 19. Bh4 Rg6 20.
>>>Rdf1 e5 21. Rf5 Rc8 22. g4 Bd8 23. g5 hxg5 24. Bxg5 Be7 25. h4 Qd8
>>>*
>>>
>>>Regards
>>>Jonas
>>
>>If true, then it is a sad state of affairs.  All the wonderful brilliant
>>programming and the most fantastic hardware in the World won't help a bit if the
>>game is lost while still in the Opening book.
>>
>>Bob D.
>
>Hello,
>
>do you _really_ believe that Brutus is a better chess program than Shredder?  If
>you do, you are very much mistaken.  It is not only a matter of opening but of
>playing the game of chess and making one's program "understand" things.  That is
>exactly where Brutus and Shredder differ.  Just my opinion, of course.

Yes, and my opinion too. A good position after the opening means much, but if
the engine is not able to convert the (theoretical) advantage to a win, then
a good opening is worthless. I believe that Shredder is much more powerfull than
Brutus right now.

>
>BTW, do not forget that Shredder 7.04 on a meagre K6-400 is over 2600 on the
>SSDF list...
>
>Djordje



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