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[Vincent Diepeveen]

When i tried the best openingsbooks for computerchess versus GM's, they just kill it totally. Realize most work in groups preparing opening. Usually a world top player and a few GM's as a group. They total hammered the books in a manner that's just abnormal.

Realize they have a very shallow openingspreparement though.

The computerbooks are very wide as everything gets tried against those books, yet in GM practice a very shallow opening gets played - prepared real deep though - far deeper than any computer book. That's modern chess.

Be prepared to lose games becasue of book traps. Now you msut find the amount of money that a young talented 26xx GM wants to prove himself there USING those lines.

young i mean with : start 20s. I don't mean teenager.

probably to have them do that you'd need to pay 1000 dollar a victory and risk losing 6000. probably no problem for you.

don't do that over the internet. in a phyiscal room. there is PLENTY of arbiters otherwise to sit in such room with a webcam.

forgot to mention that - i would want a webcam as well

let's see when we tried - 5 out of 6 lines the GM was out of book +2 to +3 pawns up from book. amazingly black or white didn't matter. from those 5 probably a part gets blown to a loss.

the problem is : how do you get a strong GM show his openingslines? As those are worth thousands of dollars, as he can win events with it worth 3000 dollar an event. So it makes him a yearsalary those openingslines.

The GM group with those openingslines, if you can get him that i'd recommend is a tad higher rated now, it's Najditsch. In the person of Erwin l'Ami, that total hammered through the book.

Checkout the databases, the lines Najditsch plays, especially with white against sicilian, it's very very destructive. There's no refutation of that

In Netherlands or Germany it's probably easy to organize this with an official arbiter in that room and webcam.

problem is he might refuse it - most 26high / 2700 players charge a 1000-1500 euro a day. Maybe raise the price per victory to 2000 dollar a win. $200 for a draw. He'll try to win. You probably risk a 4000-8000 dollar effectively over 6 games then.

Vincent