Author: Vine Smith
Date: 16:43:58 07/03/01
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On July 03, 2001 at 08:51:27, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On July 03, 2001 at 03:29:44, Tanya Deborah wrote: > >>On July 03, 2001 at 03:01:54, Mark Young wrote: >> >>>On July 03, 2001 at 02:54:14, Otello Gnaramori wrote: >>> >>>>Hi Mark, >>>>I have only a comment about it : >>>>Amazing! >>>> >>>>Regards. >>> >>>No not for some of us here? Chris, others, and me...the silent is deafening. >> >> >>Incredible result for Chess Tiger beating 2 GM´s in a row!! >> >>Come on guys! The performance of Chess Tiger in this tournament is not a IM >>strenght, is clearly a GM performance!!! >> >>Congratulations for Chris! >> >> >>Best Regards >>Tanya.D > > >Sure it is. And it will continue to be so until the humans stop with the >dumb (against computer) openings. I've said that many times before. If the >humans play "normal chess" against the computer, they are going to have _great_ >difficulty. If they play the opponent rather than playing the board, things >won't look so great. But until they start... Ricardi did not play "normal chess" against Tiger, he tried the anti-computer approach. The Old Benoni (1.d4 c5 2.d5 e5) is rarely seen in GM level chess (Seirawan used to play it occasionally), but the locked pawn formation he was aiming for would have been ideal for exploiting the program's weakness in long-range planning. Unfortunately for Ricardi, Tiger's book included 5.f4, prying the position open immediately, and his reply 5...Bf6 was a dangerous experiment (5...exf4, despite allowing eventual occupation of e5 by White, is usual). He might have been insufficiently familiar with the anti-computer line he chose, in which case he may in fact have been better off playing "normal chess". With its "anti-human" settings on, Tiger appears to be less vulnerable to the kind of trickery attempted by Ricardi than other programs. Regards, Vine Smith
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