Author: John Warfield
Date: 16:47:10 12/22/99
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On December 22, 1999 at 09:07:19, blass uri wrote: >On December 22, 1999 at 08:16:55, Graham Laight wrote: >>>Kasparov doesn't tend to lose to computers, excepting one match vs DB. >> >>He lost a G25 match against Genius in London in 1994 - and Kasparov had the >>white pieces! Worse still, the computer, from memory, was only a Pentium 90 - >>not even a Pentium II! > >I do not count this games because of 2 reasons >1)These games are not 120/40 time control > >2)kasparov believed that he played against Genius2 and not against genius3. > >In another match of 2 games kasparov won genius3 in G25 1.5:.5 and Genius3 had a >better hardware relative to the first match(p120) > >kasparov also won a blitz tournament with fritz3 some years ago and won fritz3 >in the match between them about the first place. >> >>Gary's problem seems to be his style: he is a brilliant tactician, who is not >>usually frightened of seeing a complicated malaise in from of him. But Deeper >>Blue (and the other computers) have taught him to be afraid - very afraid - of >>tactics when he's up against a machine. > >I do not agree that kasparov's style is the problem. >I believe that kasparov is the best player against computers. > >He knows to play the opponent and not the board. >He played 1.e3 against Fritz3 to get it out of book early and did the same >against deeper blue. > >Some GM's cannot change their style against computers and these GM's have >problems against computers > >>Then SSDF will have to rate his program. At the moment, he's asked for his >>programs not to be rated by SSDF. Ed seems to have a fear of competition. > >I do not agree. >Rebel won a computer-computer tournament in 3 hours/game with tiger > >I understood that Rebel has a bug in the autoplayer and that this is the reason >that Ed does not want to be tested by the ssdf. > >I guess that he is going to be happy to be tested manually like chessmaster6000 > >>long since stopped entering computer tournaments. He's not afraid to compete >>against top players because, at the moment, he's the only one doing it. > >Junior and fritz are also going to play against humans in the near future in the >Israel first league. > >Uri Based on the play I have seen of Rebel ED Schoeder has nothing to fear at all.
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