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

Author: James Robertson

Date: 00:28:09 01/06/00

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On January 05, 2000 at 21:44:05, Christophe Theron wrote:

>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

There are many Saturdays in 2000.....

James



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