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Subject: Re: Poll Question - Tournaments vs Matches

Author: Chris Carson

Date: 05:07:54 01/06/00

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On January 06, 2000 at 04:56:16, Howard Exner wrote:

>When listing the pros and cons of a computer against a human(say a 2500 rated
>player) one advantage for the the human is pre game preparation. Most everyone
>here speaks of preparation vs computers by arming themselves with anti computer
>strategies. As a reference, two nice articles were posted here in the past month
>or so by Bruce M and Vincent D about such weaknesses computers have.
>(I saved them if you happened to miss them)
>This knowledge combined with the opponent intensely preparing against a single
>opponent (Rebel Century for example) vs economizing their prep time against many
>opponents (tournaments) will
>be advantageous for the human.
>
>How will the computer, in the meantime prepare for the human? Well, it won't -
>it would not know the difference if it were playing Kasparov or a weak club
>player, barring the tweaking of the opening book by the programmer.
>
>So I think computers would do better in a string of 50 tournament games
>versus 50 match games.

Well said Howard.

Best Regards,
Chris Carson



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