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Subject: Re: Give Kramnik a tough opp.: Ferret @1GHz Athlon or Pentium, your choice..

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 08:43:50 11/08/00

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On November 08, 2000 at 04:13:30, Uri Blass wrote:

>On November 07, 2000 at 22:14:36, Aloisio Ponti Lopes wrote:
>
>>Against that chicken@kasparov we saw playing that match, even old@dement.karpov
>>could win easily...
>>
>>Ferret would win a match against Kramnik, and I also think that Shredder can do
>>that...
>>
>>A. Ponti
>
>I disagree.
>
>I think that losing only 2 games out of 15 against kramnik is an achievment that
>karpov and ferret will be very happy to achieve.
>
>Remember that the same kramnik beated Junior with p700*8 that is clearly better
>hardware than 1Ghz.
>
>Uri


I totally agree.  losing only two (no wins) would be an outstanding result for
_any_ computer program (possibly excepting DB, where everybody would expect
better).

Everybody seems to think that chess is nearly solved by Micros.  It is barely
understood by them.  Their tactical acuity is all that is compensating for their
positional ignorance.



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