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Subject: Tiger without book

Author: Shep

Date: 05:04:16 12/23/99

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On December 22, 1999 at 15:18:27, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:

>Marty Hirsch expected that book is worth 300 points at least,
>that was quite some years ago. You lose because of your weakest chain
>simply. If that is book, then you're smoked of course without a book.

Logic? If your book is the weakest part, you may actually play better without
it... :)

>I expect a victory of DIEP.

I've played numerous games with Tiger 11.4 to 11.7, all of which had an
extremely small book. In most cases, Tiger was out of book at moves 4-6.
Still it managed to make it to the top in every tournament I played.

So playing with no book at all may actually be good for Tiger, given that the
clear majority of losses from the 11.8.2 version (Paderborn, French CC, my own
tourneys) were due to bad book lines.

Sorry Vincent, call me prejudiced, but I think Tiger will win. Clearly.

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Shep



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