Author: Peter McKenzie
Date: 10:46:38 02/10/00
Go up one level in this thread
I did some book preparation for the tournament - as a former serious over the board player that sort of thing is second nature to me. The first player I worried about was Hossa. Hossa plays alot of games vs LambChop on ICC which can be a problem considering the following: - LambChop's book is small because it is completely manually built - Hossa's book is totally learnt, so it has a way of learning the opponents book. I had noticed that Hossa had been winning a good number of games vs LambChop recently so I went through some of those and patched a few parts of my book. Of course, LambChop never got to play Hossa in the tournament :-) Another opponent I did preparation was Diep - I simply added a couple of replies to 1.d4 d5 2.a3 although Vincent probably wouldn't have gone for that line vs LambChop. I was paired white vs Ferret for round 5 (this was later changed) so I had plenty of time to prepare. I had a look at some Ferret games using the ICC search command, and ended up a few moves to my book in main lines like Ruy Lopez etc. I still expected Ferret to outbook me though :-) I did notice a big hole in Ferret's book that would give LambChop a decent chance of getting a won game, but it was in a line that LambChop doesn't play and it didn't seem worthwhile going for it. I was also fixing my book after each round... This tournament finally convinced me to write a book builder, which I am in the process of doing right now. I'll post something about it in a few days. cheers, Peter
This page took 0 seconds to execute
Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700
Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.