Author: Paulo Cesar Soares
Date: 14:24:16 02/27/06
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Kasparov intervew (some words after Corus 1999) He expressed the belief that due to computers his preparation is now the strongest it has ever been. "I can go into positions I wouldn't have dared play before. I do a lot of work and thanks to the computer, I just know the outcome of certain positions." (he cited his draw against Kramnik and his 12. ...e6 against Shirov as examples of positions which he could analyse only with the aid of computers and that he would not have thought to play before. Paulo Soares On February 27, 2006 at 16:19:42, Joseph Ciarrochi wrote: >Hi folks, > >I am trying to learn a second defensive. system for black, other than the >accelerated dragon. I have been trying out the scandanavian, and I do ok with it >in practical blitz play (no correspondence yet). > >One way I learn about openings is to pit two good engines in it and look at the >plans they come up with. In the case of the scandanavian, I will put a weaker >engine in as white (spike 1.1.), and rybka in as black, just because i want to >see how black wins. > >Well, with the critical scandanavian lines, black has tremendous trouble >winning, even when it is a stronger engine. I tried giving Rybka more time (200 >to 300% more time), but still rybka has trouble against spike 1.1.. It isn't >just specific to spike and rybka. I ran a little tournment with 20 games (rybka, >fruit, fritz9, spike1.1. and ruffian 2.1) and white won 14.5 to 5.5. in the >critical scandanavian line. > >The scandi scores well based on huge numbers of games on icc blitz (49% for >black; but we don't know the strength level of the players), but does more >poorly amongst higher level players in otb tournements. > > >So....Should i base my opening choices on this kind of computer anlalysis.... >The computers think black has long term disadvantages in some scandi lines. Or >are computers irrelevant to my choice. > >best >J
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