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Subject: Re: Question- Spike 0.9a

Author: Steve Glanzfeld

Date: 16:58:18 07/23/05

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On July 23, 2005 at 13:40:46, George Speight wrote:

>I downloaded the program and intalled the engine under chessbase. I know it has
>its own opening book, and i let it use that. But why wont it go more than 3 to 5
>or so moves deep into an opening. Surely the book is better than that, or is
>there something i need to adjust. thanks, george

No need to adjust.. I just tested it with Spike 0.9a making moves for both sides
(by repeatedly pressing the space bar; no Fritz book was loaded). The book
produced variants 16 moves (31 plies) long, after 1.e4 and 1.d4. See below.

The book depth seems to be ok. I guess in your test, unusual moves were played
early. I don't know if the Spike book is a narrow or wide repertoire. When you
post some of your short book variants, other users could check this.

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 d6 6. Bg5 e6 7. Qd2 Be7 8.
O-O-O O-O 9. f4 Nxd4 10. Qxd4 Qa5 11. Bc4 Bd7 12. e5 dxe5 13. fxe5 Bc6 14. Bd2
Nd7 15. Nd5 Qd8 16. Nxe7+ *

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 b6 4. g3 Bb7 5. Bg2 Be7 6. O-O O-O 7. Nc3 Ne4 8. Nxe4
Bxe4 9. Ne1 Bxg2 10. Nxg2 d5 11. Qa4 dxc4 12. Qxc4 c5 13. dxc5 Bxc5 14. Be3 Nd7
15. Rfd1 Qe7 16. Bxc5 *

Steve



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