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Subject: Re: You mean to say that when humans do a opening preparation it's a trap?!

Author: Fernando Villegas

Date: 17:06:31 11/05/99

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Brilliant analysis yours, T. I have though on it many times. Deep lines in
opening are double edged swords. The deepest, the worst IF the opponent know
about your "deep" line. Programs should do as Lasker did, remember?, he did not
pay so much attention to opening, it seems he barely knew about them or at least
a lot less than his colleagues. There is a book written by him about that
philosophy. He said: I must try to do common sense moves in this stage and
should be enough not to be overwheelmed there, at most you can get a somewhat
inferior position, but then middle game comes and you have a lot things to do
to reverse things. Computers have enough power to do the same. Better to begin
analysis at move 4 or 5 in a simple, safe line, winning or not by yourself than
to go trought a long, erudite line and be smashed as an idiot. I apply to myself
that philosophy as much I am not prepared to expend half my life learning lines
that probably are obsolete the next day they were pubished. For computer it is
worst because they not even can think than that can happens. Like parrots, they
follow the track and get killed even by an inferior player -human of iron-
provided he did he home task.
Fernando



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