💡📝Sam Trenholme wrote on Thu, Oct 1, 2009 06:29 PM UTC:
these engines are not very good in
openings esp in making moves that are sensible strategically
I am of the opinion that criticisms against legitimate research have no real merit unless backed up by their own research. For example, can you find an opening book for Black to better defend against White’s attacks in the RMNBAKBNQR opening array? It’s one thing to assert “Joker80 doesn’t play the opening very well” (I’m not sure this is what you’re asserting; however, Joker80 was used to play all games, and Zillions was never used); however, this assertion is unsupported unless it is a claim like “Joker80 doesn’t play the RMNBAKBNQR opening very well. Black most commonly replies to 1. e4 with 1. ... e5 (Which, indeed, is the most common opening for this setup); however my research shows that Black gets much better results if he instead responds to 1. e4 with...”
Is there a reasonable Black defense with the RMNBAKBNQR array that Joker80 missed? If so, what is it?
And, yes, the Aberg setup does look to be the best setup of the Capablanca pieces.
I am of the opinion that criticisms against legitimate research have no real merit unless backed up by their own research. For example, can you find an opening book for Black to better defend against White’s attacks in the RMNBAKBNQR opening array? It’s one thing to assert “Joker80 doesn’t play the opening very well” (I’m not sure this is what you’re asserting; however, Joker80 was used to play all games, and Zillions was never used); however, this assertion is unsupported unless it is a claim like “Joker80 doesn’t play the RMNBAKBNQR opening very well. Black most commonly replies to 1. e4 with 1. ... e5 (Which, indeed, is the most common opening for this setup); however my research shows that Black gets much better results if he instead responds to 1. e4 with...”
Is there a reasonable Black defense with the RMNBAKBNQR array that Joker80 missed? If so, what is it?
And, yes, the Aberg setup does look to be the best setup of the Capablanca pieces.