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

Author: Christophe Theron

Date: 09:18:39 01/06/00

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On January 06, 2000 at 03:28:09, James Robertson wrote:

>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


I think he means "next" Saturday.


    Christophe



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