Author: James Robertson
Date: 23:17:28 01/04/00
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On January 04, 2000 at 09:32:16, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On January 04, 2000 at 01:16:02, Charles Unruh wrote: > >>On January 03, 2000 at 21:46:46, Christophe Theron wrote: >> >>>On January 03, 2000 at 20:34:52, Robert Hyatt wrote: >>> >>>>On January 03, 2000 at 19:34:43, James T. Walker wrote: >>>> >>>>>On January 03, 2000 at 02:20:43, Thorsten Czub wrote: >>>>> >>>>>>Want to remind you on the fact that i will do a tournament between >>>>>>a fast-searcher .-))) rebel-tiger12 without book, >>>>>>and vincents slow-searcher diep in a few days... >>>>>> >>>>>>it will be 40 games 40/120. on 400 Mhz machines. >>>>>>maybe we get so many data concerning this topic, >>>>>>that we can have nice discussions here. >>>>>> >>>>>>I am mainly vincents opinion. >>>>> >>>>>Hello Thorsten, >>>>>I'm sure you will post the games here for all to see. Frankly, I will be >>>>>surprised if Diep is within 150 points of ChessTiger. Have you tested Junior 6 >>>>>yet? I'm very impressed with this program. >>>>>Jim Walker >>>> >>>> >>>>I will be surprised if they are very far apart. Diep plays a lot on ICC and it >>>>is _not_ a pushover. At longer time controls it is very dangerous. >>> >>> >>>And Tiger will play WITHOUT BOOK. I'm looking forward this match. >>> >>> >>> Christophe >> >>Are both playing without book? Is this an experiment or a grudge match? > > >If you play one program without book, then essentially you play both programs >without book. The one without a book will make a quick 'oddball' move that >will take the other program out of book, most of the time. IE many programs >will start off Nf3 and Nc3 as white which will take most anyone out of book. Yes, especially since one of Vincent's important plans seems to be to get the other program out of the book quickly (with rare openings like 1. d4 d5 2. a3). I think the end result will be that the games leave the book _very_ fast. :) James
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