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Subject: Old Chess Masters vs Computers

Author: Arshad Syed

Date: 16:03:55 10/27/02


One can't help but notice the difference in quality between the games played by
masters from a previous era such as Lasker, Tal, Fischer, Capablanca etc. The
games were so unique and singular, you couldn't help but remember some feature
of the game which made it really spectacular. For instance, a Queen sacrifice or
multiple piece sacrifices. By contrast, even the World Championship games of
recent times have nothing distinguishing which etches them in memory. This might
probably because of the closing gap between the top class players.

Anyway, I was wondering how those masters would have coped with the chess
programs of today. Anyone here replay the positions from some of those legacy
masterpieces? One good one for example, would be the Queen sacrifice by Fischer
versus Byrne. Would he really be able to carry that through against Deep Fritz
or would he end up like Kramnik ... "...it could have been the most beautiful
game of my life."

Regards,
Arshad



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