Author: Côme
Date: 03:19:48 09/23/00
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On September 22, 2000 at 19:06:01, Stephen Ham wrote: >Thanks Jose and others for your help. > >I saw nowhere in my Babelfish translations that GM Leotard was pledging to play >as if his opponents were human, as I did in my match games. I presume that GM >Leotard can then use "anti-computer" strategy. I only ask out of curiousity >because I question whether "anti-computer" strategies are effective in >correspondence chess, when the chess engine is allowed to calculate for so long. >Regardless, a player of his strength should prevail against the machines without >having to resort to such measures. Good luck, Christophe! > >I hope the moves will be annotated, as I did in my matches. Perhaps some French >speaker can ask GM Leotard to share his thoughts/calculatins with us. It would >be both educational and entertaining. > >Finally to try to answer Paulo's question, I think this match should favor >Christophe much more than my match games. The reasons are: > >1) Christophe is surely a better player than I am. >2) Christophe is playing slower hardware. >3) Significantly less computer memory is being allocated to the chess engines. >4) Christophe is playing at a much slower rate of speed. I generally replied the >very next day with all my moves. >5) Christophe has not promised to play as if his opponents are human. He may >thus employ anti-computer strategies. Already the first 4 moves of each game >have been posted and are generally closed affairs. Instead I played two sharp >Sicilians against the chess engines and a sacrificial attack versus a King's >Indian and strove to unbalance play in all 4 games. I knew that what I was doing >decreased my chances against the chess engines, but it created more >entertainment for all of us. Also, I got to learn more about chess engines...the >hard way! > >I think this will be a very interesting test and I expect Christophe to prevail >for the above reasons. I find it odd though that if Christophe wins 3 games and >scores 3-1, he loses because he lost 1 game. However, if he gets the lesser >score of 2-2 (all 4 draws), then he wins the match because he didn't lose a >game. The logic escapes me there. > >Best wishes to you, Christophe! > >Stephen Hello !! The logic is easy because in french mag "Europe echecs" Christophe said that no program can beat him so even with 1 lost he loose the "defi". Do you understand now ? Best Regards Alexandre Côme
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