Author: Marcos Christensen
Date: 12:53:04 05/14/00
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On May 14, 2000 at 15:08:42, Jeroen van Dorp wrote: >I think Van Wely played a smash game, just like everyone here thinks Fritz >played smash games before, when only making a draw. > >It would be strange to conclude that all positive results of Fritz basicaly are >a beatup of the opponent, but when it flukes it's not a beatup by the opponent, >but probably a crash or something bad happening to Fritz. > >Fritz plays okay this tournament so far. I'm very impressed. Today he met Van >Wely, who played more okay than Fritz. The guy is a GM, I suspected he could >come up with some resistance. > >Computers don't have off-days. Van Wely won on strenght, not on computer flaws. > >Congratulations to Van Wely on a nice win. > >Jeroen ;-} I agree, and I'm happy with vanWely victory. But I'm just questioning what I SAW (and I saw fritz out of book in move 5). I think that if computers will play humans tournaments this kind of game will be more frequent. In the game before Fritz won because of anxiety of his opponent. This kind of events, with rebel matches and Israel championship will put some break in the inflated SSDF ratings.
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