Author: Uri Blass
Date: 16:44:06 08/24/01
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On August 24, 2001 at 19:14:34, Harald Faber wrote: >On August 24, 2001 at 12:33:26, Christophe Theron wrote: > >>On August 24, 2001 at 11:41:47, Harald Faber wrote: >> >>>With these losses it is justified that Tiger didn't become single world >>>champion. What is your explanation for this result? Did you play GT in >>>aggressive mode? What made Tiger lose especially the last game vs. an amateur? >> >> >> >>I can answer your question if you answer mine: >> >>When you flip a coin, why is it head sometimes, and some other time it is tail? >> >> Christophe > >I hoped you wouldn't answer that way. >1st: IMO Tiger is the strongest program available, even if slightly ahead of the >others. >2nd: I am not disappointed about the Tiger result as you may suppose. >3rd: I am only curious how the rock solid and tactical safe Tiger could lose a) >vs. SOS (I'd have bet a lot that at least a draw is the worst result the Tiger >plays vs. an amateur) 1)The gap between tiger and the best amatuers is not so big that tiger cannot lose one game 2)Sos is parsos so it had an hardware advantage. and b) HOW this could happen. Tiger did not really play as >usual. What are the mistakes that tiger did that the commercial version can avoid? >4th: IMO the loss vs. DeepJunior was a desaster and I am astonished about >Tiger's play in that game. Junior had also an hardware advantage and maybe tiger could do better with more processors. My Gambittiger at very slow time control(400 minutes/40 moves on PIII850) does not like Bxb1 in that game and prefers Bc6 A possible computer line is 18...Bc6 19.Bg5 Ra7 20.Na3 Kf8 21.Rxe7 and both programs see score of about +1 for white. I need to do more analysis to see if gambit with better hardware had a chance. > >Why am I curious and astonished? Because I have seen *many* SUPERIOUR games >Tiger played. Of course he loses from time to time, but not vs. anyone and >especially Jeroen's opening preparation usually gives Tiger some advantage. That >makes me wonder. Tiger is not god Tiger can lose vs every strong amatuer if you play enough games. Uri
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