Author: Tomas Casanovas Martinez
Date: 10:16:59 12/20/00
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On December 20, 2000 at 12:33:13, Hermano Ecuadoriano wrote: >On December 20, 2000 at 10:47:38, Tomas Casanovas Martinez wrote: > >snip >>I have followed these games with the help of my Tiger 12 and >>Shredder 5 etc. and the only thing I can tell you is that in my opinion -and >>despite of some surprising mistakes- Shirov can play an enormously creative >>chess, elevating it at the category of ART, well above all the other chess >>players in the world. >snip > > >To you, Shirov's art outweighs the few rating points between him and others. >Many rank Bronstein and Tal above Botvinnik. >I "rated" Karpov above Kasparov. > >To refer only to a ratings list, or only to match results, would deny all >of those human values behind our chess-judgement. But without these >"spiritual" components, we are all cold mechanisms. >No thanks. > >This state of affairs now exists in computer chess too. With so many >programs near the top, "passion" can resonably be permitted to trump, say, >100 rating points. This leaves all the top programs in play, with regard >to the question of which one is "best". > >It is true that the programmers must measure their programs somehow, but >I don't. So I recommend, to those interested in such questions, downloading >the PGN of the matches played between these programs, and playing through >them, trusting your own chess-judgement to overrule the match score, sometimes.
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