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Using the full Hert Set (500 positions) means 1000 games in an engine head-to-head competiton... All work on the Hert Set was done by Thomas Zipproth. Tests and documentation: Thomas Zipproth & Stefan Pohl ok i did a quick analysis on this pgn with K10.4, mainly out of curiosity, and it appears tha...

hmm well i would at least visit a doctor, if you hadn't done that already; including a simple blood test, exampleL i know a guy who has eom diabetes type 2 and recently with new meds said he feels a lot better again PS and i first would try to beat deepdjenghis(gambiteer) before you start taking on ...

With all this talks eg about French computer variations, here's a new little program (Free) to train (complete games) at level 1400-1900 or so against a human strength playing program with some awesome gambits: 'Djengis-gambiteer' ! Download at : http://home.kpn.nl/jefkaan/Djeng-winb.zip (unzip, and...

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1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. e5 c5 5. a3 Bxc3 6. bxc3 Ne7 [6... Qc7 Transposes] 7. Qg4 Qc7 [7... cxd4 Transposes] 8. Qxg7 Rg8 9. Qxh7 cxd4 10. Qd3 Qxe5 11. Ne2 dxc3 12. Qxc3 Nbc6 13. Qxe5 Nxe5 0.16 Why not 10.Ne2! (resulting in some advantage in my book), i wonder instead of 10.Qc3, just wonderi...

SF and Komodo would agree with my suggested moves all too often in an analysis session, and I am able to find these moves by the sheer force of evaluation. maybe you also should have a look at Houdini-5. Yes it looks slow but with ht off and large pages memory it's not so bad in slow games (is my i...

the terms have also been widely checked on games with SF and Komodo.I wonder why SF team is not interested in the knowledge present in the book, any guesses? There is a lot for them to learn within, and consequently, improve SF. well i'm not part of the SF team, but anyway, besides having such (oft...

That “package” won’t be worth much, once you start facing serious opponents well as former ICCF world champion i presume Ron L did already face some serious opponents you know.. :) as for the difference between correspondence and freestyle chess, well, during the second half of the Infinity tourn i...

Why call an idea dubious before it's even been tried? :) Regards, CL because opening theory is becoming more and more important in computer chess ; first at slow levels (correspondence), now also in freestyle chess like the last infinity tourn (with 90/30 time control); the usual chessbase .ctg boo...

We urgently need to find something to stop this development. The main problem, is that some players, like Jef, still believe they can score better trough their own play, and most of the players who already acknowledge reality, remain silent. well i also acknowledge reality ofcourse, in fact i was o...