Author: Kurt Utzinger
Date: 02:51:00 08/22/05
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On August 22, 2005 at 03:50:59, Rick Hagen wrote:
>Hello Kurt,
>
>If Fruit-Toga is good at dealing with short books (like 5-move book), it should
>also be good at FRC (?)
This must not necessarily be the case. At FRC there
are other rules guilty in my opinion. One example:
how to define the centre? Is it still e4/d4-e5/d5
despite the often very strange starting position.
I very much doubt.
Kurt
>There could be a hint if it is shown that Spike-Mainz does good at short books
>also.
>Anyway, the opening forms an important part of the game, so to neglect this
>aspect and let engines play only from the (late) middlegame onwards is a bit of
>a shame. (For testing purposes)
Fully agreed and this is one reason why we prefer
the testing with pre-defined positions or short books.
We would like to know the playing strenght of the more
or less naked engines and not the goodness of the books.
Kurt
>The endgame (technical aspect) is mostly already done by tablebases :/
>
>Btw, my prelimanary tests show that Junior is a bit of a nuisance for Toga, more
>so than Shredder. (Drawbook, moves cut off at move 10)
>
>Plan to do a 90+30 nunn2 match between them... but actually like to wait 'till
>Fruit WCCC is available.
That would be fine.
Kurt
>
>As a PS. a question, Kurt.
>What is your impression between the match Fruit 2.1-Shredder 9 at (very) long
>time control Christian Koch was doing?
I have not (yet) the game of this match. Where
to get them.
Kurt
>
>(I cut a nunn2 match short between the two at 90+30, after Shredder took a 8-1
>lead... thought there was something wrong, until I watched the Christian match.)
>
>Keep up the good work, Kurt!
Thank you Rick.
Kurt
>
>Regards,
>Rick
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