and you forgot to mention that you need extremely castrating formulas to hold the top on ICC. No player that plays fair and open formula will stay there for long
C.K.
jefk wrote:[quote="I
Sitting at the tourney I had the same impression. Book making is highly overestimated
sofar, books gambling with their moves fail to impress me.
For the rest, with hardware and opening theory being
the most important factors for engines at top level (say
2800+), engine programming is highly overestimated.
at ICC i'm ranked nr one with my book, having used
various engines, Stockfish, now also K9 sometimes
but in the past others, doesn't matter. Only thing i
need to get at nr 1 for standard is faster hardware.
Which specific (top)engine doesn't matter that
much anymore; improving some Elo points per year
or so also are indicating this. Books and hardware rule.
But also only for a certain period of time,
at which point we still will see interesting games,
but with a known result (1/2-1/2)
jef[/quote]