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Subject: Re: Weak-chain argument

Author: Chessfun

Date: 14:47:02 02/18/03

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On February 18, 2003 at 17:09:08, Rolf Tueschen wrote:

>On February 18, 2003 at 16:57:59, Chessfun wrote:
>
>>On February 15, 2003 at 15:38:30, Rolf Tueschen wrote:
>>
>>>On February 15, 2003 at 15:26:13, Chessfun wrote:
>>>
>>>>On February 15, 2003 at 14:52:10, Rolf Tueschen wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>On February 15, 2003 at 14:34:31, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>> Answer me this, What Difference Does it make if you play more
>>>>>>>positional chess, if you cannot defeated me??
>>>>>>
>>>>>>If that were the case, I would agree.  But by the same token, do you want
>>>>>>your program to play 30 brilliant moves and one lemon move, over and over?
>>>>>>That one lemon will drag your performance _way_ down at the top of the rating
>>>>>>scale.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>Bob, may I point out with humility that this is exactly my weak-chain argument?
>>>>>Finally we are on the point. Did you ever reflect what would happen if
>>>>>
>>>>> - in a really recompensating money atmosphere and
>>>>>
>>>>> - after top players adopted specific comp related chess?
>>>>>
>>>>>And that on the base of a known permanent weakness?
>>>>>
>>>>>That is the point. And not the typical hype based on show events /commercials.
>>>>>
>>>>>What is you impression with the GM play on ICC? But note, Roman D. had to face
>>>>>an always changed version [on the base of his own hints]. Guess what will happen
>>>>>if several top GM work hard on a counter strategy against comps, in other words
>>>>>if GM adopt 'Eduard'...
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>You clearly have no clue as to what actually happens.
>>>
>>>
>>>Note that nobody here must come with humility! It was a bit irony by me. But -
>>>you are a bit too respectless. Why?
>>>
>>>Here you completely miss my point. You should read it again and always think
>>>about tournament times. Not Blitz.
>>
>>You seem to have finally answered your own question.
>>http://www.talkchess.com/forums/1/message.html?285129
>>
>>Sarah
>
>I don't understand what you might possibly mean. Because here to you and there
>to Matthew Hull I always said the same. Bob can't have spoken about tournament
>chess. Crafty is NOT playing tournament chess on ICC. So you are wrong and also
>Matthew is wrong because he wanted to take Bob as if he  had said that for
>tournament chess they are GM. Wrong - Bob said the opposite.
>
>Let's wait until Bob says what he meant. :)
>
>Rolf Tueschen


In this thread you ask about Crafties performance against GM's, then state you
meant at Tournament times. Then you acknowledge in another thread Crafty don't
play tournament times.

Matters not whether Dr. Hyatt says it does or it doesn't.

Sarah.




>>
>>>
>>>>Roman may be good against comps and there are other GM's and IM's that are, and
>>>>there are also many, that try daily over and over and over and simply see loss
>>>>after loss after loss.
>>>>
>>>>Scrappy has been playing jnogueiras who is GM Jesús Nogueiras Santiago
>>>>for days and scrappy has been slaughtering him. While IM Alexis Cabrera handle
>>>>Minotauro has for the most part scored about even.
>>>>
>>>>Point being that some maybe able to adapt their game to an anti-computer type
>>>>play (trading pieces etc) others never manage despite playing endlessly.
>>>>
>>>>Sarah.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>Only then, and that is my argument since long, the actual commercial progs begin
>>>>>to SUCK. But on a permanent base!
>>>>>
>>>>>My questions to Amir went a bit in the same direction. Let's see how far the
>>>>>experts can open their mind.
>>>>>
>>>>>Rolf Tueschen



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