Author: James Robertson
Date: 13:37:44 01/05/00
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On January 05, 2000 at 02:31:46, blass uri wrote: >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 > >How do you know vincent's plans? Because it is consistent with the way Diep played at DOCCC99. I talked with him and watched his program play. Maybe that is not his plan _this_ match, but in general it seems to be one of his goals. James > >If these were his plans then there is no reason for him to refuse to play with >books. > >I do not believe that books are important mainly because of the possibility of >these ideas but I do not think that vincent intends to use them. > >I expect some games to be in books for 10 moves because programs often find book >moves by search. > >Uri
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