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Subject: Re: Nobody told the pretty chinese you cannot play a computer that way?

Author: Anthony Cozzie

Date: 12:03:22 06/15/04

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On June 15, 2004 at 15:00:15, Russell Reagan wrote:

>On June 15, 2004 at 13:46:41, Derek Paquette wrote:
>
>>Zhu Chen looked better losing, than petrovich did drawing,
>>She went in and wanted to win, she wasn't scared or cowardly, she played with
>>'balls'
>
>It is a noble thing to fight hard and not go for an easy, boring draw, but it is
>nothing special. There are many players who could fight hard and lose. It is
>really uncommon to find a player who can (consistently) give us an entertaining
>game against computers.
>
>Most players give us one of two things: (1) boring draw, or (2) loss. The only
>player I can think of who really gave us a good show against the computers was
>Smirin. He never lost and had winning chances in every game, IIRC. Are there any
>other players of his calibre when it comes to playing computers (i.e. fights
>hard AND doesn't lose (much) AND doesn't give us the boring draws)?

Note that Smirin has *NOT* been given another match.

This is why we have the rash of draws between GMs and computers.  If the GMs
win, they get no rematch.  If they lose, they get no rematch.  GMs have to eat
like everyone else . . .

anthony



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