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Subject: Re: Dilemma after poisened pawn

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 16:08:45 11/08/01

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On November 08, 2001 at 12:16:10, Roy Eassa wrote:

>On November 07, 2001 at 18:50:31, Tina Long wrote:
>
>>I still believe that seeing what the top players have played, and reading their
>>reasons and analysis in books is FAR better than "infinite analysis" by a
>>current chess program.
>
>
>I know you are indirectly referring to Uri, who thinks computers are better.

I did not say that computers are better in the opening stage.

What I said was not about opening position but about a position from a test
suite and I said that I prefer to trust analysis of weak humans of today who use
computer programs to help them and not analysis of GM's of the past.

It was about a position that was played only once.
Opening theory is based on positions that are played more than one time so I
trust humans more to do serious analysis of them.

>I'm kind of in the middle.  I think top GMs are better most of the time, but
>occasionally the computer can find something that GMs have overlooked or
>underestimated.  The best of all, of course, is a top GM working WITH a
>computer.

I agree if you talk about opening theory.
I disagree if you talk about analysis of positions or games and I believe that
in this case the top GM's often do not care about the quality of their analysis
and if they do not use computers then I prefer the analysis of computers when
they get a long time and not the analysis of a GM who did not use computer and
probably used less than an hour to analyze the position and give his comments.

Uri



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