Author: Mark Ryan
Date: 19:54:40 08/09/00
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On August 08, 2000 at 17:37:44, Uri Blass wrote: >On August 08, 2000 at 16:29:59, walter irvin wrote: > >>On August 08, 2000 at 10:33:34, Peter Hegger wrote: >> >>>Hello, >>>This has probably been done to a certain extent already. I'm wondering how the >>>games of the old masters, i.e. Morphy, Steinitz, Tarrasch etc...stand up under >>>the scrutiny of today's best computers. Are the games still as clean and >>>brilliant as they seemed to be a hundred years ago? Or have they been found to >>>be error ridden relics of days gone by? >>>I'm wondering in particular about the "evergreen" and the "immortal" games. >>>Also, Bobby Fischer's "game of the century" against Byrne. >>>Thanks for any help you can give me. >>>Best Regards, >>>Peter >> i think you will find that the computer almost always out does the master in >>key positions .computers crush just about all players in tactics . > >I disagree. >They are better in short tactics but humans are better in long tactics. > > i guess the >>the big question is could the computer reach a key position vs morphy ect >>??????????? i think there are some old masters that had styles that a computer >>just could not deal with 2 that come to mind are nimzovitch and petrosian .they >>were masters of the closed position game .i think they would have laughed at >>computers .on the other hand tactical masters like marshal morphy ect would have >>got sliced and diced . > >Here is one winning moves of morphy > >[D]r1bq1rk1/ppp3p1/7p/3P2n1/2PQ1p2/1N5P/PPP2PPK/R1B2R2 b - - 0 1 > >Morphy won by Nf3+ >programs need a long time to find this move because they cannot see deep enough. > >They may suggest other sacrifices that are less convincing because white can >avoid accepting them. > >Uri Who was Morphy's opponent? I'd like to find the whole game, and play through it. Cheers, Mark
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