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Subject: Re: Spike1.0a vs Toga II ended 20 to 20( with the last 10 games in PGN)

Author: Günther Simon

Date: 05:23:00 09/02/05

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On September 02, 2005 at 07:16:57, Volker Böhm wrote:

>Hi,
>
>thanks for this comment. It seems that the very old book of Spike (I allready
>used the same book in IceSpell) is not good enough any more. Spike seems to get
>better result if both sides are playing without book or if they are using the
>same book.
>
>Greetings Volker

No, Jorges games prove nothing about book quality.
I don't know who is guilty, Arena(book bug), Arenas mainbook, or Jorge with
wrong book settings...
(Also I saw one player out of book in move 5 but after this move,
all players were sudenly in book again??)

Just an excerpt only from the last 10 games(found in 2 minutes):
(I am sure the same amount will be found in the other games)

[D]rnbqkb1r/pp1p1ppp/4pn2/2pP4/2P5/2N5/PP2PPPP/R1BQKBNR b KQkq - 0 4
game 31 -> 4...b5?? (horrible for computers)

[D]rnbqk2r/pppp1ppp/4pn2/8/1bPP4/2N5/PP2PPPP/R1BQKBNR w KQkq - 0 4
game 32 -> 4.e4?? (horrible for computers)

[D]rn1qkbnr/pp3ppp/2p1p3/3p1b2/2PP4/1QN2N2/PP2PPPP/R1B1KB1R b KQkq - 0 5
game 39 -> 5...Qc7?? (horrible for computers)

Guenther



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