Author: Miguel A. Ballicora
Date: 09:42:51 07/24/01
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On July 24, 2001 at 07:20:41, Jouni Uski wrote: >I have feeling that this kind of super TPRs are always played in left side of >Atlantic Ocean. In Argentina or Cuba or Mexico. May be computers are still >new thing in that area... Yes, in Argentina people live in jungles, desserts or mountains, including the GMs. They are too worried chasing mamooths or being chased by pterodactyls and since electricity is out of the question, computers are only laptops. There are good smugglers of batteries so no problem with that. ;-) Maybe you meant "anti-computer strategies" are not common in that area. I do not know, just for the sake of information, all the young argeninians GMs I know are in, I have seen their names. That excludes Panno. I have seen Ricardi, Hoffman, Zarnicki, Sorin.... Hoffman beat Rebel in one of the challenges in great style. I know that Michael Greengard (mig from Kasparov web site) had been there in Buenos Aires for several years before being tempted by Kasparov and helped some GMs in their preparation with databases and all. That happened some years ago so I doubt that is novelty today. There are good sites about chess and they deal with computer chess too, I hope you understand some spanish, so you won't miss some good stuff: http://www.inforchess.com http://www.ajedrez-de-estilo.com.ar/ade/ Argentina has ~35 million people and I read the other day that 2 million have internet access at home. I doubt that in that environment young GMs rarely see a computer program. Maybe they do not care to play against them? if that is what you mean, may be. Regards, Miguel > >But can somebody repeat this in Germany or Holland? I doubt it. > >Jouni
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