Author: Mark Young
Date: 06:11:41 01/04/04
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On January 04, 2004 at 08:55:21, Sally Weltrop wrote: >On January 04, 2004 at 04:46:25, Mark Young wrote: > >>>It will never happen. He refuses to play unless he knows the book the computer >>would be using. > >U got to be kidding me? Although the GM's do the same thing but they do not say >I have to look at the book but they want to get a "feel" for the program >although they still could be preparing lines according to the program's book. >The programmers could use a totally different book although it is the same >version they gave the GM. > > >>Very funny condition, but true and telling....makes it easy to win when you can >>prepare a line of play out of book. > >It's all preparation. Why does he keep tooting his horn? Either quite lambasting >the programs or put his "chess prowess" on the line. GM Kasparov or GM Kramnik or any other GM I know about in a "real" match had a copy of the book the program would play from. They may have had the program, but not the opening book, for the reason I have stated.
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