Author: Jorge Pichard
Date: 19:52:16 02/15/02
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On February 15, 2002 at 19:12:59, Dann Corbit wrote: >On February 15, 2002 at 18:42:43, Jorge Pichard wrote: > >>Let say that the New Fide Champion Ponomariov play against either Rebel Century >>4, Chess Tiger or Fritz 7 without any preparation in a match of 5 Games using >>the Fide's New Time control, do you think that any of these programs have a >>chance of winning the match? > >Sure. The fewer the number of games and the faster the time control, the higher >the odds become in the computer's favor. > >At 2 games of G/5 minutes, very likely the computer would win. Especially if >the GM is not allowed to prepare. > >But if you are a GM, you would be an idiot to accept that match. Even if you >were the world champion, and you had to face a human opponent would would not be >announced until the day of the match, you would be foolish to accept it. After >all, he could prepare and prepare and you would not know what you will face. > >The strength of computers is accuracy at high speed. They are poorest at >correspondence chess (but still very good) and strongest at blitz. > >In a 2 game match of G/10 I would not be surprised to see a super GM lose to a >program of only high strength like Arasan, Amyan or Bringer, especially if not >allowed to prepare. > >Computers are very strong. They may well be of GM strength. If GM's prepare >hard against them and still get repeatedly beat, they may even be above GM >strength. Time will tell, eventually. Fide new time control is not game G/5 or G/10, but even if you allow Ponomariov only one Week to prepare against a known program let say for instance Rebel Century 4 using an AMD XP 2000+ or even Chess Tiger 14. The chances of one of these program to win at least 1 game and draw 2 out of five is very possible. Simply if you analyze the games played by Ponomariov Vs Ivanchuk for the Fide World Championship, you will realize that there were a lot of tactical mistakes which could be severy punished if either RC 4 or Chess Tiger 14 were playing against Ponomariov. I would not be surprised if Rebel Century 4 win at least 2 games and draw 1 in the upcoming match against GM Van Wely, and that is with more than at least a month of notice which he could be preparing. Jorge
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