Author: Vine Smith
Date: 02:09:15 04/19/02
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On April 19, 2002 at 04:18:07, Uri Blass wrote: >On April 19, 2002 at 03:46:59, Sune Larsson wrote: > >>On April 19, 2002 at 03:39:29, Otello Gnaramori wrote: >> >>>On April 18, 2002 at 20:31:24, Vine Smith wrote: >>> >>>>If it weren't for the truncated time control, Smirin >>>>could be leading 3-0. >> >> >>> >>>This is IMHO sincerely exaggerated, since also at regular timing e.g. GM Huebner >>>was drawish in all the games against Deep Fritz in the last match. >>> >>>w.b.r. >>>Otello >> >> >> "Sincerely exaggerated"?? Did you look at these 3 games played between >> Smirin vs programs? If yes, do you understand these games? IMHO Vine is >> totally correct here. >> >> Sune > >It is not clear because it is possible that the computers could also play better >with more time. > >Uri Naturally, it's all conjecture, but it does seem fairly clear that longer time controls favor humans more than programs. To compare extremes, while you've shown that programs can compete with correspondence GMs, I think the programs have little chance of racking up the kinds of ratings there that they achieve by blitzing at ICC and FICS (even excluding the ones that are artificially inflated). In an interview prior to the match (on the Kasparovchess site, as I recall), Smirin sounded displeased with the short time control he had inherited from Gulko. And when you look at what Smirin has been doing, it appears he has been quite successful at turning the games into wars of ideas rather than tactics. Shredder would not have understood what was happening to it given much more time, I believe, although it may have sensed the danger a little earlier, still in a rather hopeless position. Similarly, Hiarcs 8 (about which we know very little prior to its release) did not seem to appreciate the weakness of its advanced d-pawn, which again is a long-term danger that probably would not trigger alarms in a longer search until too late. Junior possibly would not have misplaced its queen given more time to think -- I think I will check this out. Without the threats of trapping the queen, Smirin's kingside pressure would have been somewhat easier to deal with, but he still would have held the initiative. In any case, there's nothing drawish about the kind of chess Smirin has been playing, as asserted toward the start of this thread. I think he's quite interested in filling his pockets with as much of Chessbase's cash as possible, and is going about this very cleverly. Regards, Vine
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