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Subject: Re: Smirin match conclusion?!

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 15:14:50 04/29/02

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On April 29, 2002 at 17:26:52, Torstein Hall wrote:

>On April 29, 2002 at 16:58:13, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>On April 29, 2002 at 14:07:03, Fernando Villegas wrote:
>>
>>>Hi Jouski:
>>>My conclusion is just this: current top programs can fight in equal or almost
>>>equal terms with GM's. Yes, Smirin won, but not crushingly. It was a balanced
>>>tourn with games where both sides had some chancs. If that is not equal to
>>>match between two GM's, I wonder what it is.
>>>In fact it is amazing that each time a GM win a program, at once people jumps
>>>saying than that is a proof programs still lack what it is needed to be GM. Why?
>>>Any GM can lose to any GM. Does it means the loser side is not GM?
>>>I belive progam are at least middle GM's, only inferior to the top hundred o so.
>>>Fernando
>>
>>
>>at game/60, yes...
>
>But you have to admit that the progress of the programs are bigger than you
>expected?
>
>game/60 is not that short timecontrol....
>
>Torstein


Not at all.  game/60 becomes game/30 after 30 moves or so.  and it becomes
game/10 after 40-50 moves.  That is where the computer shines.  If you made
it 60/60 and then 30/30 or something where there is no sudden death, then
things change.  But computers have been murderous at game/x time controls
for 20 years now...

It is just that now X is creeping down year by year.  40/2.5 used to be the
FIDE time control.  Then 40/2.  We have now seen a WC crowned after winning a
pair of blitz games...

Let the computers into _that_ event and see what happens...



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