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Subject: Re: Hydra's Limit Of A Ten Move Per Line Opening Book

Author: Tony Nichols

Date: 21:33:08 06/24/05

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On June 25, 2005 at 00:14:08, Amir wrote:

>On June 24, 2005 at 23:19:18, Tony Nichols wrote:
>
>>I think this is just hype. In game one Hydra was clearly in book all the way to
>>Rbl. I can assure you that if you are only using a 10 move book you don't need
>>GM Lutz on the team. Maybe, they have experimented with smaller books but
>>clearly not for this match.
>
>How do you know Hydra was clearly in book till Rb1? Rb1 was a novelty, so I
>would assume it's probably comp's own move. Hydra's programmer has said many
>times that the book in most cases is around 10 moves deep in *this* match.

On the chessbase website they impy that GM Lutz prepared the openings. Even if
Rb1 was the comp's novelty it played 13 moves of theory.
Regards
Tony



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