Author: Arturo Ochoa
Date: 05:41:38 02/20/05
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On February 20, 2005 at 07:37:21, Uri Blass wrote: >On February 20, 2005 at 07:08:45, Sandro Necchi wrote: > >>Uri, >> >>do you think Kasparov can win without home preparation and without reading book >>and check what's new and novelties as well? >> >>Well, believe it or not it is the same thing...I mean the chances to win without >>this is like without a good opening book for a chess program. >> >>Sandro > >I did not claim that your book does not increase significantly the chances of >shredder to win tournamnent. Read this: You said a book is _important_ http://www.talkchess.com/forums/1/message.html?412706 > >I only argued about the numbers. >I agree that shredder has only small chances to win a tournament without book. >I do not agree that the chances today are 0.000000001%(note that 1% is also a >small chance). > You have argued a lot of supposition without a rational base. >I also claimed that if the engine is strong enough relative to the opponents >then it has good chances to win a tournament even without book(it does not say >that book is not important for it to win tournament because increasing chances >from 50% to 95% is important for winning tournaments). > >Uri http://www.talkchess.com/forums/1/message.html?412706 Unless you are Blasstradamus, it has never happened.
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