Author: Günther Simon
Date: 09:04:05 02/21/06
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On February 21, 2006 at 11:19:27, Uri Blass wrote: >On February 21, 2006 at 01:30:34, Gabor Szots wrote: > >>On February 20, 2006 at 16:19:48, Dieter Eberle wrote: >> >>>Hi Gabor, >>>none of the lines you posted is bad. They may not be played every day by >>>Kasparov but if you check them with a strong engine like Rybka beta13b you will >>>find out that the maximal deviation from zero is far below +/- 1, a good result >>>for a general book in my opinion. >>>Astonished, Dieter >> >>Hi Dieter, >> >>I submitted all games with the HS book. I did not claim all the lines were bad. >>I said the were bizarre. Most of them is too passive to be good. If an engine >>comes out of the opening with -0.65 (as was the case in Spike vs. Pro Deo) it >>will probably lose against an opponent of its own caliber. >> >>Gábor > >I do not agree with it. > >-0.65 is not a good predictor of result in the opening. > >take the following position from the noomen match > >r2q1rk1/3nppbp/b2p1np1/2pP4/8/2N2NP1/PP2PPBP/R1BQ1RK1 w - - 0 11 > >Glaurung say 0.65 pawns for white after a minute of search > > ...snip... AFAIK we speak about -0.65 for _White_! after book end and that is quite different and IMHO already downhill. Guenther
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