Author: Miguel A. Ballicora
Date: 09:46:26 07/24/01
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On July 24, 2001 at 12:42:51, Miguel A. Ballicora wrote: >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, ^^^^^^^^^^^ it should say "are in ICC" Miguel >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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