Author: Lanny DiBartolomeo
Date: 14:37:10 05/14/00
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On May 14, 2000 at 15:53:04, Marcos Christensen wrote: >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. I believe most people (including GM's) know about this type of game against the comps and if it was easy to get a comp into this type of game it would be done constantly, but it is not done constantly because it is not easy to reach against a pc prograM with a well prepared book.
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