Modern Times wrote:but you need to take some good luck when it comes your way, because sometimes it goes the other way !
An example of where things go wrong - in the game against Arasan, out of book at over -1 as I recall, which quickly got worse, and the game was over almost as soon as it started.
Yes this is very true and even more in blitz.
Not to mention that Texel and Rookie weren't playing this time.
I think Arasan played very strong and accurate so probably it would have won anyway. Haven't seen the first moves out of book though so can't judge.
mar wrote:Yes this is very true and even more in blitz.
Not to mention that Texel and Rookie weren't playing this time.
I was travelling for work this week. I tried to put Rookie online before I left, but there were connection problems. Hopefully it can join next month. But I have to make some improvements. The current version is stalled for 1 year now, and it starts to show.
Thanks. Just analysing that with Komodo, and Cheng's 12. Qxc4 is what caused the big change in evals in Arasan's favour. I don't know if that was a book move or not, impossible to know now.
Thanks. Actually the blunder was 11. Kd2??
I initially though it could've been a problem with pondering but it can't -> if you ponder on bad move the opponent won't play it and you get a pondermiss, starting fresh.
So if cheng really played Kd2 it must have been due to a bug, possibly smp-related because here cheng only considers Kf1.
Henk wrote:I don't think it's much fun playing a tournament where almost all opponents play 500 ELO stronger. But I can always watch TV simultaneously.
Well, your engine is not SMP, right? And your PC probably has multiple cores. So if you want weak opponents, why not bring your own? Just pick a weak engine of your choice, and log that on as well. I will be there with 4 engines, as I have a quad. And in fact I might join NEG as well, as it doesn't use any CPU time anyway.
No it's too expensive. Maybe Skipper skips. So at least I forget about weak engines.
This wasn't a good month, but I would be interesting in joining in on one of these. So then we can have two 1700 engines battling it out, if you enter, Henk.
