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Subject: Re: Best humans that play computers on ICC

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 06:28:56 05/03/00

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On May 02, 2000 at 23:34:12, blass uri wrote:

>On May 02, 2000 at 18:42:59, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>On May 02, 2000 at 17:55:38, John Hartmann wrote:
>>
>>>Hawkeye certainly does.  Dlugy has, I think, as has Leon, who seems
>>>to be the computer-killer par excellance.  However, if I had to take
>>>one of these players to represent humanity in a game against, say,
>>>Crafty on ICC, I'd take Hawkeye.
>>>
>>
>>Hawkeye doesn't have much of a chance, IMHO.  He plays way too tactical and
>>gets into deep trouble.  CptnBlueBear is probably the best human to play a good
>>brand of anti-computer chess.  And of course there are the 'Roman aliases'...
>
>Are there humans who try to attack crafty's king?
>
>I think it may be the best way to try to win a computer at tournament time
>control and it is tactics because you may need to sacrifice in order to win.
>
>Unfortunately most humans do not play tournament time control on ICC.
>
>Uri


Yes there are.  Hawkeye.  Insight.  Cptnbluebear (when the position is right).

King safety gets a hard workout on a chess server.



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