Author: Mark Young
Date: 22:14:06 08/16/04
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On August 16, 2004 at 10:07:03, Uri Blass wrote: >On August 16, 2004 at 09:12:21, Martin Andersen2 wrote: > >>After reading chessbase's article about the first 2 games, >>it seems like Shredder is lost out of book ? >> >>http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=1854 >> >>Martin. > >It does not prove preperation of the hydra team and I think that hydra was out >of book earlier than shredder but maybe they saw at home that their small book >was enough against shredder so maybe they prepared lines that they can win >against opening that shredder played(at least if they play against the >commercial shredder). > >Not that hydra has an advantage of not being commercial and not playing in WCCC >so it is harder for shredder to prepare against it. > >As a general rule smaller book is better than bigger book for slow time control. >The reason is that the engine can find better moves by itself at long time >control when at blitz saving time on the clock is more important. > >Uri I don't know what book Shredder is playing with, but if the Hydra team knows the book. Then I don't know what this match can tell us about Hydra. If this match has fair conditions, and Hydra keeps crushing Shredder. It says much about Hydra.
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