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Subject: Re: I believe the Tiger book may have some holes. Look for book losses

Author: Kurt Utzinger

Date: 10:11:55 10/31/04

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On October 31, 2004 at 09:56:42, Drexel,Michael wrote:

>On October 31, 2004 at 08:45:32, robert flesher wrote:
>
>First of all it is not his job to look out for book losses.
>The book is part of the package.
>
>Blaming the book is most often a lame excuse.
>
>If you play 5.Bh3 in this position:
>
>[D] r1bqkbnr/1p2pppp/p1np4/2p5/4P3/2NP2P1/PPP2P1P/R1BQKBNR w KQkq - 0 5
>
>you simply deserve the loss.
>
>This was certainly not a book move.
>My Tiger 15 also prefers to play this Nonsense.
>
>Above all people should scale down their expectations a bit.
>Even a 30 ELO improvement today is hard to achieve >2700 SSDF.
>
>Michael

      Hi Michael
      It was a surprise to see 5.Bh3 but even CT_15
      does not consider other moves as being stronger.
      Kurt

New game,
r1bqkbnr/1p2pppp/p1np4/2p5/4P3/2NP2P1/PPP2P1P/R1BQKBNR w KQkq - 0 1

Analysis by Chess Tiger 15.0: (P4 1.8/32 MB hash)

5.Bh3 Nf6 6.a3 e5 7.f4 Nd4 8.Bxc8 Qxc8 9.h3 h6 10.Nf3 Nh5 11.Nxd4
  =  (-0.04)   Depth: 11   00:00:12  3001kN
  =  (-0.06)   Depth: 17   00:17:43  285014kN

(Utzinger, MyTown 31.10.2004)




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