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Subject: Re: Announcement: Diep - Tiger beginning saturday!

Author: Christophe Theron

Date: 23:46:26 01/04/00

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On January 05, 2000 at 02:17:28, James Robertson wrote:

>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


Tiger will be out of book at move 1 anyway... :)


    Christophe



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