Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 08:57:42 02/10/00
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On February 10, 2000 at 06:57:58, Andrew Williams wrote: >Here's a quick question: What opening preparations did other programmers make >for CCT1? I'm interested mostly in the other "amateur" programmers, but I'd >also like to know how/if the professionals prepared. I showed up with my normal book. No special preparation of any kind as I don't have time to "waste" on book twiddling... > >In PostModernist's case I decided that if I was drawn against a professional >program I would go out of my way to try to find an opening it wasn't happy >with, but with the other amateur programs, I would not bother. So, using the >excellent chess database, Scid, I prepared White and Black tournament books >based on the openings with which PM had had most success on ICC (I had a >database of > 9000) games. I was surprised to find that there is quite a >difference between PM's results with 1.d4 and 1.e4 > >My first opportunity for a bit of book-cooking was against Shredder. PM has >beaten Shredder (account vodka) three times on ICC, so I added these three >games to my book to see what happened... The result was that Shredder evaded >my "home preparation" on move one! > >Immediately after Shredder I was drawn against Diep, but I stupidly forgot that >Vincent's program is for sale, so I didn't do anything to prepare for Vinctent's >expected 1. d4 d5 2. a3 I'm not claiming PM would have won, but it might have >put up a better show than it did in this game. > >After the first weekend, I looked again at some of the lines in my book and >again using Scid's excellent "Tree Search Mode" I made some extensions to the >lines in my tournament book. > >The only other "professional" I played was Junior, but there was a late pairing >change and I only had a few minutes before the game, so I couldn't have done >anything anyway. > >Interestingly, against two of my later opponents, Grok and EXchess, PM ended up >in openings that it had lost recently against these opponents. I wonder whether >this was deliberate or just coincidence? Peter? Dan? > >I think that possibly I was just wasting my time with all this "work", but >I must say that it contributed to my enjoyment of the whole event. > >Andrew Williams
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