Author: Paulo Soares
Date: 21:25:49 12/19/99
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On December 19, 1999 at 22:16:50, Hasnain Mujtaba wrote: >Hi Charles > >I don't know about any one-on-one Human vs Computer match-ups at chess variants, >but in an experiment conducted in 1997, a team of two different chess computers >(each with Elo > 2500) and an amateur human 'controller' (Elo 1900) defeated GM >Arthur Yusupov (at the time #31 in the world with Elo 2640) in an 8 games match >with a score of 5:3. The match was in "Shuffle Chess" -- a variant where you >start the game with the back rank pieces arranged at random. > >The two chess programs ran in some k-best modes and the human controller would >then pick what he thought were the best moves from the two k-best lists. > >The purpose of the experiment was to guage the combined strength of humans and >computers. On their own, the ametuer and the computers will lose to GMs at chess >variants because they don't have the tactical strength. But together, as this >experiment shows, they can do quite well. > >You can read more about this experiment at >(http://www.minet.uni-jena.de/www/fakultaet/iam/personen/CA-Chessd.html). > >Regards >Hasnain. > Hasnain, I always wanted to have information regarding this game type. It is the first time(!) that I read some thing about this subject. A 1900 ELO player, assisted by programas, winning GMs! I liked the information of the site a lot, I thank you very much for the good information!!! Paulo Soares, from Brazil
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