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Subject: Re: Antihuman Book !!?

Author: Derek Paquette

Date: 17:30:09 08/24/04

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On August 24, 2004 at 11:48:56, Ziad Haddad wrote:

>Hi Derek
>Hi all,
>
>Has anyone tried this book? The idea is really exciting but ithink there's still
>a lot to do.
>Derek these lined are designed for white or for black?
>I'm making a little test using Shredder8, GambitTiger and Junior7 in a 3 mn per
>engine blitz using only this book.
>Shredder 8 leads clearly.
>
>Sh8 using anti_human book  2004
>
>                      1        2        3
>1   Shredder 8        ******** 101½     11½11      7.0/9
>2   Gambit Tiger 2.0  010½     ******** 00011      3.5/9  17.50
>3   Deep Junior 7     00½00    11100    ********   3.5/10  14.00
>
>There are still 10 games to finish this little test

HI there, first of all, the site to go to is
http://www.geocities.com/theupandup22/

Peter Skinner and I are still finalizing all the details of hosting my book and
webpage.  Put this address in your favourites list as it is updated ALL THE
TIME, as i use the book everyday against humans, and i'm not talking about
run_of_the_mill humans, I mean professional FIDE members.

Secondly,
no the book isn't designed to be played vs itself, it has specific lines that I
have pain stakingly analyzed and crossed refereced with other results that I
have seen with books and engines, and especially engine characteristics and
flaws.

The purpose of the book NOT to be set to optimized is specifically because
humans all play differently, if you had a human play a game on Monday, he'd play
it differently on Tuesday, just because his brain was working less or more, or
if he had a fight with his wife, etc etc.

So basically, to make a long story short, i have selected, specific proven lines
that work.

There isn't a lot of 'variety' for any of the lines, so the book is going to
just keep learing that it can win, or it can lose on a certain line vs another
engine, it doesn't have another line to fallback on, because the variety on each
line does not exist, or is very small.  Saying that, engines will fight another
engine much more succesfully in these positions, and even if I might say, will
fight against a human much more successfully.  The sacrifices on f7, with the
knight from F3, and the bishop might seem silly,
but you would be shocked on how much a person will 'panic' or over compensate
his king safety and get blown off the board.

I recommend to you that you stop this test, and concentrate on developing
specific engine settings that will fully compliment this book.

So to close, it is impossible to compare the results of engine vs engine and
human vs engine, as we've seen countless times across the spectrum of chess.

I hope this answers some of your questions,
(a reminder, you cannot use anti human book vs anit human book)

-Derek Paquette
p.s. make sure you check the site often, current version 1.9.6



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