Author: Thorsten Czub
Date: 01:59:27 11/06/99
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On November 05, 1999 at 20:06:31, Fernando Villegas wrote: > 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. exactly. > Programs should do as Lasker did, remember?, yes - i do remember. I like lasker too. our engines are often that strong that you don't have to fear opening positions without book, they will find a way... > 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. yes - thats the way I always tried to handle it. let the engine play, and not the opening book. yes. >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 yes. sad. and therefore : better use a small unknown book, that throws opponent out of book and BOTH engines have to compute... if you know your engine is strong, you don't have to fear it.
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