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Subject: Re: Analysing old master games with today's programs

Author: Mark Young

Date: 22:04:48 08/09/00

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On August 09, 2000 at 22:54:40, Mark Ryan wrote:

>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

[Event "It"]
[Site "Paris (France)"]
[Date "1863.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "De Riviere J A"]
[Black "Morphy Paul"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C58"]
[PlyCount "40"]
[EventDate "1863.??.??"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nf6 4. Ng5 d5 5. exd5 Na5 6. d3 h6 7. Nf3 e4 8. Qe2
Nxc4 9. dxc4 Bc5 10. h3 O-O 11. Nh2 Nh7 12. Nd2 f5 13. Nb3 Bd6 14. O-O Bxh2+
15. Kxh2 f4 16. Qxe4 Ng5 17. Qd4 Nf3+ 18. gxf3 Qh4 19. Rh1 Bxh3 20. Bd2 Rf6 0-1

Here it is, another Morphy crush...







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