Computer Chess Club Archives


Search

Terms

Messages

Subject: Re: What if these IGM's did NOT know they were playing against a computer?

Author: James Robertson

Date: 01:38:29 07/14/00

Go up one level in this thread


On July 14, 2000 at 00:27:12, blass uri wrote:

>On July 13, 2000 at 23:17:29, James Robertson wrote:
>
>>On July 13, 2000 at 09:31:37, ujecrh wrote:
>>
>>>On July 12, 2000 at 23:53:10, Victor Valenzia wrote:
>>>
>>>>How do you think that today’s best players would fare if they did NOT know that
>>>>they were playing against a computer?  Suppose, for the sake of argument, they
>>>>were only told that they were playing against a very formidable opponent.
>>>>Let’s take a top program on super hardware (i.e. Deep Junior in Dortmund).  The
>>>>operator would somehow have the moves transmitted to him, perhaps by a tiny
>>>>earpiece.  Without the “anti-computer” strategy, how do you think that the top
>>>>players in the world would fare in this scenario?  What do you think the
>>>>hardware’s ELO would be in this case?
>>>
>>>This is probably hard to predict because, even if no anti-computer technique
>>>would be used, it would also avoid situations when the GM is simply psyched out
>>>because he knows he is playing a computer.
>>
>>At least at Dortmund, only Kramnik used anti-computer play. Bareev threw away a
>>pawn in a move designed to "confuse" the computer that he knew would never
>>confuse a human. It is quite possible DJ's performance would not go up at all
>>(at least in this event) if the players did not know they were playing a
>>computer.
>>
>>James
>
>Adams used anti-computer play.

I do not agree that Adams used anti-computer play. It was merely a game that
entered the endgame quickly.

James

>I read that the way that adams could win Junior in blitz in the same opening but
>Junior played better at tournament time control so he could not win.
>
>Uri
>>
>>>
>>>Ujecrh



This page took 0 seconds to execute

Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700

Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.