Author: James Robertson
Date: 11:12:51 04/20/00
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On April 20, 2000 at 06:54:24, Mark Ryan wrote: >On April 20, 2000 at 06:15:43, odell hall wrote: > >>Hi >> >> Perhaps the Chess World should introduce a new type of Challenge? I think any >>2500 player with the aid of Fritz6 would probally defeat any super grandmaster >>in match play, The Super grandmaster being denied computer assistance themselves >>ofcourse. I would love to see how such a game would turn out, I bet any 2700+ >>player would lose. The machines near perfect calculation together with the >>intuition and positional knowledge of the human 2500 player would no doubt make >>that player invincible. Do you agree? > >Hi: In Leon in 1998, Kasparov played Topalov a match of what Kasparov calls >"Advanced Chess"; both players could consult Pentium II 333 mhz computers >running Fritz 5 during the rapid (one-hour each player) games. They drew the >match, each player winning 3 games. One month earlier, Kasparov had defeated >Topalov 4-0 in Sofia in chess without computers. Perhaps the computers were an >equalizer in Leon. But I don't know if we can assume too much from one match. >Incidentally, the games from these two matches are covered in New In Chess >magazine, issue 1998 Number 4. >Cheers, >Mark It is funny because Anand stomped Karpov in an advanced match by a score I don't think could have happened without the computers (remember Karpov had beated Anand for the FIDE title just a year earlier). In this case the computer was anything but an equalizer! I think as a result of strange results like this it is impossible to predict how such a match would work out. For instance, is a 2500's positional skill really as good as a 2800 player? Is the only difference in strength tactical? Kramnik routinely squashes 2700 players positionally, without a hint of tactical play. As a result, the extra tactical help may not change the result against some players very much. James
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