Author: Drexel,Michael
Date: 15:14:23 08/08/03
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On August 08, 2003 at 17:43:10, George Tsavdaris wrote: >On August 08, 2003 at 17:00:34, Drexel,Michael wrote: > >> I am quite sure that the computers would hardly ever win a game >>> if humans are playing boring games with only the draw in mind. >>> Kurt >> >> >>Kurt, actually this is not so easy. >>The opponents of Brutus for example dont know the opening book and they dont >>know anything about the Computer. Brutus does not use a broad commercial book. >> >>Playing a boring game against a computer with white is usually relatively easy. > >If Kramnik/Kasparov/top 40 wanted to play boring games with white then yes, >it's easy to draw with machines. But i can't believe for all the others it's >easy or medium or even difficult to draw. It's impossible! And i don't >mean drawing one game or two but a series of 10-20 games and in hardware >2200 MHz and up. And as humans would have to play with black too, it's a bad >idea to play boring for a draw. Nothing is impossible. Some of the top 40 might have more problems to draw a computer with white than a 2300 player. All depends on the playing style of the human and his favoured openings. > >> >>However, do you have any conception with the black pieces against 1.e4? >>This is eventually the move you will have to face in 90% of the cases. >>You might be lost already before the computer is out of book. >> >>1...e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 is probably not advisable unless you can handle the Berlin >>Variation as good as Kramnik did. >>The Petroff might be better, but even there you will almost certainly encounter >>difficulties against the machine because white has a small advantage there. >> >>The French defence was a perfect Anti-Computer opening some years ago. >>Things have changed and it might be very dangerous to play it now. >>The French defence is under severe pressure these days. >> >>The same applies for the Caro-Kann. It can be very hard to cope with 3.Sc3 >>against the machine. >> >>Pirc/Modern is not everybody's taste >> >>and finally 1...c5 >>well.... >> >>Michael
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