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Subject: Re: I don't buy Nemeth's claims

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 05:27:47 07/14/02

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On July 13, 2002 at 18:15:33, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On July 13, 2002 at 12:46:37, Uri Blass wrote:
>
>>On July 13, 2002 at 10:47:45, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>
>>>On July 12, 2002 at 21:34:43, Telmo Escobar wrote:
>>>
>>>>On July 12, 2002 at 14:29:17, Louis Fagliano wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>He seems to have replaced John van der Wiel as the leading computer killer (at
>>>>>least on this board).  Rebel managed to overcome van der Wiel's anti-computer
>>>>>chess style and beat him in a challenge match.  Since Ed Schroeder has retired
>>>>>from playing challenge matches against humans, is there anyone with a copy of
>>>>>Rebel Century 4.0 and a fast computer (sorry, mine's only 500 MHz) and would
>>>>>want to challenge Mr. Nemeth to a match?
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Try to win using his strategies and you'll see.
>>>>
>>>> I'd like to meet Nemeth in the Fritz 7 server, to have him playing any of the
>>>>CB engines I have in my computer.
>>>
>>>
>>>You might be surprised.  There was a player named "mercilous" on ICC that
>>>wrecked holy hell on _all_ programs a couple of years ago.
>>
>>You forget one important thing and that the programs of today have better
>>hardware and it make things harder for humans.
>>
>>Of course you can win after enough tries but this strategy is not going to work
>>in most of the cases and GM's are not going to try it when they know that they
>>may have maybe probability of 10% to win the machine and 90% to get problems.
>>
>>Uri
>
>
>Better hardware won't do a thing against "mercilous".  He played 1 0, 2 0 and
>3 0 games.  At those time controls, no hardware is fast enough to see that open-
>ing the file will get you mated.

It is dependent on the position and the software.
I am also more interested in slower time control and not in 1 0 or 2 0 games.

I do not like the solution of crafty because it means that the program is not
going to capture even in cases when it is good to capture.

I think that a better solution is to do special extensions in positions when the
trojan horse sacrifice is relevant.

Uri



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