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Subject: Re: GM shouldn't play H7 before match starts

Author: Matt Frank

Date: 22:06:26 02/02/99

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>>Do you think the GM would agree to random chess?  :-} That would satisfy everone
>>who is concerned about opening book prep, right?

On February 03, 1999 at 01:02:22, Dann Corbit wrote:

>I think that would be a pretty pointless matchup.  The comps would get
>slaughtered and it would not be real chess.  We already know that comps do awful
>on openings without an opening book.  It's really no different than simply
>deleting the opening book and playing with the chess engine alone, as far as the
>chess program is concerned (except that it is likely to spew warnings about
>illegal positions unless it has programming for variants if you play random
>chess).

Dann did you see the smiley face? BTW, what kind of book prep do GMs have with
randon chess?

Matt Frank



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