Author: Terry McCracken
Date: 08:21:13 03/26/02
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On March 26, 2002 at 09:49:34, Otello Gnaramori wrote: >On March 26, 2002 at 08:47:21, Terry McCracken wrote: > >> >>It's well known that faster time controls for most people who are serious >>players is a handicap for the humans as most humans aren't lightning logicians >>and computers are. This is the computers territory. So at blitz or active chess >>they can crunch much faster than us but the human tends to catch up over a >>longer period of time. > >Terry, >We have an exception to the rules in the person of Mr. Nemeth. >He can do very well in blitz timings against comps , the same is not true for >longer time controls. >The explanation is IMHO that anticomp traps like trojans or stonewall attack are >more easily avoided by the comps when the analysis is deeper. > >w.b.r. >Otello There are _always_ exceptions to the rules, I've no quarrel with that. Also Mr. Nemeth uses anti-computer chess techniques to the extreme, so I'm not surprised at all. This really bogs computers down in calculations. It can be applied at longer time controls as well. I don't do that as that to me is crippling my opponent. It _is_ very difficult to beat a machine on its' own terms. But in can be done!:o) Terry
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