Author: Ed Schröder
Date: 04:12:23 10/10/02
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On October 10, 2002 at 05:49:18, Rolf Tueschen wrote: >On October 10, 2002 at 03:48:19, Ed Schröder wrote: > >>After the first part of the match I had to do something, call it desperation. I >>activated a special option that focus on the clock of the opponent, that isplay >>fast (often instantly) when it is relative safe to do so. The effect it caused >>was the GM a) wasn't able to relax after his move and b) force him to think >>constantly all the time. This (playing fast) of course was not without risk but >>it worked well (especially when he was in time trouble at move 30-40) as the >>software responsible did well giving no errors. >> >>I have seen the psychological effect it caused on GM v/d Wiel and also on GMvan >>Wely, they had a hard time with this type of unusual play, it definitely put >>pressure on them and so I kept on using the system. >> >>Assuming the Fritz team doesn't have such an option they still out of ultimate >>desperation could try to play on 20-30 seconds average. Surely you would search >>1.5 to 2 plies less deep (not in the Permanent brain BTW) but the benefitscould >>be greater than the loss. >> > >That will be topic for many discussions in future, but let me add a few first >remarks on the unbelievably ugly operator behavior. Chess, I'm talking about >human chess with its centuries long tradition, so with or without exact time >measurement, is a game of and for _gentlemen_! So, it's consense that chess >itself is the point. Both opponents try to create their "picture" of the >concrete chess situation. So by force this is also about the psyche of the two. >But the main point is the pressure you put into chess and then you influence the >opponents psyche. Now, what does that mean, what Ed thankfully has desribed >here? > >Human chess players have played thousands of opponents and it's well known that >a real _master_ would never play the status of the opponent. He doesn't want to >win with bad tricks. I repeat even against weaker opponents a master will still >try to play a decent game of chess. Of course some blunders will end the game >and a master will always regret it (from the chess view). > >Now we have show events between machines and such masters. More or less the >masters have adapted to the typical play of machines. They are better players. >They win. Now suddenly the operator of the machine gets depressive attacks. He >knows that his program is too weak to stand a real master. But he has still an >Ace in his sleaves. What if I change the machine's play into Blitz mode. Could >it be that over some two or three games the master might think by some hypnosis >factors that the fast play of the machine is possible because his own play had >changed to the worse?? Naaaaaah! Not in a life time! The master will think this: >Oh God, now Ed Schröder is in deep troubles. It seems as if he tried his final >trick! This is crazy. Is Rebel playing better in Blitz than in tournament mode? >Of course not.Am I, the master, so stupid to let me get into Blitz mode myself? >Of course not! I'm a master, a GM, and I know such tricks since the early youth. >And my trainer has always told me that I should always concentrate on the chess >on the board. And over many years I have concentrated on that attitude. >(Speculation mode ON: Ok, I see that Ed is now dying. Can I help him?Ok, I can >let him win some points and nobody would notice how I did it. I can oversee >certain things. I'm only human. If it helps Ed's psyche...) > >Short NB: I won't discuss that. The wrong doing is so clear and obvious so that >I do not plan to even attack it. It's so ridiculous and mean. So that we don't >need further discussions. > >[Part II is about the newest confessions of a second programmer, Bob Hyatt.] > >Rolf Tueschen Well thank you Rolf for all compliments, of course the GM has every right to focus on all the weak points of a computer chess program also known as the "anti-computer" strategy. Please write chapter III on this disgusting behavior of the grand masters, know what I mean? <LOL> Ed
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