Author: Ulrich Tuerke
Date: 00:53:19 05/16/00
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On May 16, 2000 at 03:49:50, Tony Werten wrote: >On May 16, 2000 at 03:17:32, Pete Galati wrote: > >>On May 16, 2000 at 02:11:16, Jouni Uski wrote: >> >>>... one mere win in in 8 games. Pity. >>> >>>Jouni >>> >>>(Of course it has GM strength no discussion about that, please) >> >>Actually, I have not been following the tournament, but if it only got one win >>out of 8, my first reaction is; how well was this program setup? >> >>On the other hand, if it was running full blast on a well setup, and good >>computer, that either says; never underestimate the strength of a grandmaster (I >>think that's what it says) or/and, the Grandmasters are learning to play against >>computers very well. > >The last couple of games I've seen quite a standard approach from the >grandmasters. First try to block everything. >Then decide if you want to break up the blockade or take the draw. > >I had expected that everyone would (have to ) take the draw, but in this kind of >positions the grandmasters seem to be able to see that breakthrough a lot better >than the computer. That's not really a surprise but I thought the difference >would be smaller. Still a lot of work to be done. > >Although it's not nice for Frans, I don't believe it's bad for computerchess. At >least one has an answer to the very annoying "Chess has been solved, because >Kasparov lost to Deep Blue". >Now hope this will lead to more interest and sponsoring. > >Tony > >> >>Pete Sorry, you guys have probably never been on a man machine event. You would know what a "terrible" opponent a computer-experienced grandmaster is. It was naive to think thatb Fritz could walk thru here. Uli
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