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Subject: Re: Game in 30 Min per side Fritz SSS would have won against Van Wely

Author: Jorge Pichard

Date: 16:57:49 05/14/00

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On May 14, 2000 at 19:53:23, Jorge Pichard wrote:

>On May 14, 2000 at 19:27:32, Bruce Moreland wrote:
>
>>On May 14, 2000 at 18:56:45, Mogens Larsen wrote:
>>
>>>On May 14, 2000 at 18:38:46, Jorge Pichard wrote:
>>>
>>>>A player of that caliber doesn't take unnecessary risks without knowing the
>>>>implications, especially playing a game shorter than 60 minutes per side. what I
>>>>am referring to is opening his position wide open against one of the most
>>>>tactical monster ever created. If Fritz SSS would not have lost so many tempos
>>>>moving his bishop so many times and instead would have chosen to centralize his
>>>>pieces, Fritz SSS would have collected more human bones and donated to his
>>>>programmer Frans as a collectible trophy.
>>>
>>>This doesn't exactly prove that Fritz would have beaten van Wely with a shorter
>>>timespan. van Wely might have chosen another plan, or maybe he knows that Fritz
>>>have problems with piece coordination in a certain type of position. Loosing
>>>tempos wouldn't be less frequent if the timecontrol is shorter IMO. I don't know
>>>how often a GM discards an intuitional move after calculation, which is a
>>>problem when there's less time.
>>>
>>>Sincerely,
>>>Mogens
>>
>>And so what if it does?  Set 'em up at game in one minute and Fritz probably
>>wins.  There's a crossover point, certainly.
>
>I never mentioned game in a minute per side you know better than that, even Gnu-
>Chess can beat any GM in game in one minute per side.
>
>Jorge
>>
>>By the way, Seirawan and Shirov could not only win like this, they could win
>>using more natural human vs human play.  I'm sure many others could, as well.
>>
>>bruce



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