Author: blass uri
Date: 20:15:20 05/02/99
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On May 02, 1999 at 19:25:38, James T. Walker wrote: >On May 02, 1999 at 06:05:58, blass uri wrote: > >> >>On May 02, 1999 at 05:48:07, odell hall wrote: >> >>> >>>On May 02, 1999 at 01:49:32, James Robertson wrote: >>> >>>>I think It would be a rather cool project to compile a list of all the GM - >>>>computer games played at 40/2. So far this is my list: >>>> >>>>Rebel10 - Anand 1998, 2 games, 0.5-1.5 >>>>Fritz - Efimov ??, 1 Game 1-0 (I don't have the pgn for this game; does anybody >>>>know where I can get it? >>>> >>>>Can anybody help me lengthen it? >>>> >>>>James >>> >>> >>> >>>Wow that's pretty hard to do because most grandmasters are scared to play >>>computers. >> >>I do not know about it. >>Junior played against GM's in tournaments and there was no problem. >> >>Amir Ban is not aware to problem and there was only one case when smirin refused >>to play against it in G/30 >> >>I think that it played at least 10 games against GM's >>at time controls of 2 hours per 40 moves+1 hour per game >>or 90 minutes per 30 moves +1 hour per game. >> >>Maybe 5-10% of the GM's are scared to play against computers and this is the >>reason that most sponsors do not let computers to play. >> >>Do you have an evidence that the number of GM's who play in tournaments when >>program are allowed to play is significantlly smaller?(assume there is no right >>to refuse to play against the computer, and assume the same prizes for humans) >> >>Uri > >Hello Uri, >In the U.S. when computers were allowed to play in tournaments there was almost >always an "Out" for anyone who did not want to play the machines. The problem >comes when you realise that the machines still have a big effect on who gets the >prize money. Imagine that two players come down to the final round tied. One >has signed the "No computers" list the other has not. So one guy gets >Fritz/Junior/Hiarcs on a Quad Xeon or something like that and the other guy gets >an IM because he was smart enough to "NOPlay" computers. This is the reason that I think we need to have no right to refuse to play against the computer. Uri
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