Author: Howard Exner
Date: 18:44:04 08/29/98
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On August 29, 1998 at 18:35:13, Shay Bushinsky wrote: >Yudasin vs Junior 5.0 >================= > >We have completed three interesting and exciting days of a match against >international grandmaster Leonid Yudasin. The event took place in the luxurious >Hyatt Regency hotel, Ein Bokek, the dead sea, Israel. > >The conclusion of the match was as follows: > >1. Standard time control part (120/40 and 60/rest) 1.5 - 0.5 in favor of Yudasin >2. Rapid time control part (30/all) 2 - 2 draw >3. Unofficial blitz match (5/all) 4.5-1.5 in favor of Junior 5.0 > >We have only but appreciation to grandmaster Yudasin for taking the >challenge and playing great chess against Junior. Yudasin, is not >only an all round first class positional expert and tactician, but is >a very spiritual person as well. He had taken the challenge beyond >just another chess match to really try and investigate the differences >between the human thought process in chess and the way computers >play the game. Yudasin sharing his thoughts on the games is an added bonus. It sounds as if he was eager to communicate with you about this. > >Along the match, Yudasin seemed to have changed his mind in his >effort to classify Junior as a chess playing entity. >Indeed he reckoned that Junior 5.0 is of above 2500 playing strength. >Though after the standard time control part, Yudasin felt that Junior >is an improved tactical "brother" of his predecessor. It was after game 3 >of the rapid match, Yudasin had recognized Junior's positional strengths >as well. > >In his summation of the match, Yudasin felt that the result was justified. >He believed that he is still slightly superior in the slower time controls. >Yudasin tried to explain the difference in what he termed human's "second order >of chess understanding" - the ability to appreciate when positional features >are good and when the same features are bad - giving the example of Junior's >central pawns in game 1 which were a disadvantage due to their relative >weaknesses. This will remain a hurdle for programmers - deciding on what features make a position good or bad. The example he cites from game #1 is something I'd like to see a strong GM like him expand on. Perhaps even in a book once more 40/2 games are out there to annotate. >Yudasin also thought that if computers would be given a "relative sense" e.g. >would be >able to adopt their game to the opponent's or to "bluff" sometimes, they would >become >extremely strong. > >All of the games were transmitted live over the ICC. The winning internet >comment was from one of the observers who disagreed with us when we claimed >that the dead sea is the lowest point on earth. He insisted that it is rather >Washington D.C! > >From our point of view, as programmers, we felt that the match was very >valuable. It exposed some obvious problems such as: Qb8, Bh8 and >Bb7 in STC game 2 etc. but we felt that still the games were of high quality. >Personally I liked game 3 of the rapid part where Yudasin tried a "sit and >wait policy" and was positionally punished by Junior. I also >can't stop admiring how Yudasin handled rapid game 4 where I'm >sure that not many humans would of escaped Junior alive. > >A technical detail: >Junior 5.0, soon to be released by Chessbase gmbh, ran on a Pentium >333Mhz utilizing 80MB of RAM. Thanks to everybody who helped us >have this event. Special thanks to: > >Matthias Wuellenweber of Chessbase, Rinat Zukerman of Hyatt, >Guy Zadik of Packared Bell and Andy McFarland of ICC > >and of course to grandmaster Leonid Yudasin and to Amir Ban my partner. > >We hope you enjoyed the event. Yes, I appreciate the efforts that go into making such events a reality. Thanks. Especially the standard 40/2 controls are interesting to follow. There are so many games out there to play over that I for one just can't find the time to play over the fast, non standard games. But the comp vs GM or IM at 40/2 are rare and so spark greater interest in me. For your convenience the match >games are enclosed. The next event on Junior's agenda will take >place Tuesday, September 8th. IGM Dov Zifroni will play a two game >match against Junior.
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