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

Author: Christophe Theron

Date: 18:44:05 01/05/00

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On January 05, 2000 at 16:43:50, James Robertson wrote:

>On January 05, 2000 at 02:46:26, Christophe Theron 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
>>
>>
>>Tiger will be out of book at move 1 anyway... :)
>
>It will a fun match.... I forget, when does it start?
>
>James


I don't remember. Maybe it is written in the subject line, I don't know...


    Christophe



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