Author: Amir Ban
Date: 16:57:05 03/21/02
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On March 21, 2002 at 18:19:12, James T. Walker wrote: >On March 21, 2002 at 17:52:36, Thomas Lagershausen wrote: > >>DJ7 is worldchampion of computerchess.Todays game against Gulko shows that this >>means nothing. When the program had to play against a human player completly >>other things are important to play a highrated game.Junior is the weakest >>program in the competion against Gulko.Gulko had played real antichess today but >>DeepJunior7 can´t improve the own position.The opposite was the case.It weakens >>the own kingside with pawn h4? and h5? and makes senseless moves with the rooks >>and the knights.So we have another example that ratinglists of computerchess are >>far away from the reality. >> >>TL > >I would be interested in Amir's explanation of todays game. This was not Junior >7 like I have. My Junior 7 would have played more agressive moves. Was it >contempt factor settings? Is it something new that Amir is trying? I would not >be too quick to criticize untill I know exactly what happened today. I hope >there is some reasonable explanation. In any case you have to lay part of the >blame on the GM. He did nothing either. The game was a draw. That is still >not a bad result vs a GM. I would have liked to see Junior play more agressive >with white myself but if GM's have to resort to this tactic to draw with >computers then that also says something about computer strength. >Jim >Jim I brought GM Gulko's comments in another post. What happened in the game, obviously, is that Junior got an advantage but failed to find a plan to convert it. I'm not qualified to comment on the quality of play, but aggressiveness ? Junior gave up two pawns to try and make progress. As yesterday's game showed, GM's can quickly go wrong in open positions, while today's game showed that in closed positions, they find it easy to defend, because there is little tactics going on. This is not news. This is not so much about "anti-computer" strategy as about "anti-GM" strategy. Junior had "instructions" to open up the position but didn't find a reasonable way to do it in this game. Amir
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