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Subject: Re: IM Emanuel Berg ELO 2500 vs computer

Author: Sune Larsson

Date: 12:14:34 03/30/02

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On March 30, 2002 at 14:46:53, martin fierz wrote:


>this is great! from the last 4 games you could see that emanuel was not
>frightened at all and played "normal" chess against the tiger, and even won. i
>think sometimes humans play anticompter style, although they don't really know
>how (e.g. gulko in his first games as black), and then they get beaten even
>worse than if they had tried for a normal game. i'm looking forward to seeing
>these games!
>
>aloha
>  martin


 Right, Emanuel has no fear whatsoever. This was obvious very early - like
 when he as 15 year old declined an early draw offer from GM Bagirov - and
 went on to win it in 27 moves! Bagirov was very upset afterwards, and the
 following loss in the blitz tournament didn't exactly make things easier...
 This happened 1997. And the point with these games vs top programs is exactly
 to test his normal way of playing. He is very talented in tactics - but that's
 the home ground for computers... It's also interesting to see that Emanuel
 is on his way to be a GM by:

 a) always playing 1.e4 - and never Ruy Lopez...
 b) always playing French/Dutch as black
 c) never studied much from books.

 But everybody knows these things, so he's experimenting with some
 (for him) new openings. Ruy Lopez will probably never happen since
 there is too much theory on this opening...;-)

 Sune






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