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Subject: Re: A new Idea to promote computer chess in human events

Author: Jorge Pichard

Date: 00:00:39 08/09/03

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On August 08, 2003 at 22:48:22, Uri Blass wrote:

>On August 08, 2003 at 20:29:33, Jonas Bylund wrote:
>
>>>going to have practical chances for a draw even against perfect play.
>>>
>>>Uri
>>
>>LOL! one tiny mistake and it is mate in x... (with perfect play that is)
>>Also remember with perfect play, comps would not need an opening book, and a
>>human would not stand a chance when it comes to playing perfect in the opening.
>>
>>Jonas
>
>We will have to agree to disagree.
>Chess is a game when white has a lot of ways to draw and the best players
>can play in a style that often avoid losing mistakes(at least with white).
>
>I even believe that there are a lot of games with no mistakes when the
>theoretical results was always a draw from the beginning.
>
>I even believe that 2000 players practically played games with no mistakes when
>they only traded pieces and avoided complications or went for repetition in the
>opening.
>
>Games with no mistakes do not mean prefering a complicated draw and not a simple
>draw.
>
>There are even theoretical lines when the game is finished with repetition in
>less than 20 moves and I believe that part of them include no mistakes.
>
>Uri


Uri, you have never lost an argument, you should have been a lawyer :-)

Pichard



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