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Subject: Re: Fritz8 at 2 sec a move would beat 99% of the players here?

Author: Kurt Utzinger

Date: 01:22:17 08/18/03

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On August 18, 2003 at 04:06:43, Uri Blass wrote:

>On August 18, 2003 at 03:42:31, Kurt Utzinger wrote:
>
>>On August 17, 2003 at 22:31:16, Keith Long wrote:
>>
>>>give the human 1 hour for the game and the computer 2 sec a move and i bet fritz
>>>would still beat anyone here
>>
>>     This assumption may be correct considering that 95 % of the chess
>>     players just know how to move the pieces. And a further 4 % of the
>>     chess players have not enough chess knowledge (strength) to beat
>>     Fritz8 at 2 seconds.
>>     Kurt
>
>What do you mean by just know to move the pieces?
>The 95% of the players are not with equal strength.
>
>I guess that part of them may often miss a capture of the opponent in the next
>ply and part of them may do it less often when another part will never or almost
>never miss a simple capture in the next ply and only miss often some things that
>are slightly more complicated like a fork or winning a piece thanks to a pin or
>thanks to a threat that the piece cannot escape.
>
>Uri

    With the 95 % of chess players I mean those who know to move the pieces,
    who have perhaps once or twice in her life played a game and who never
    have visited a forum like this. I know a lot of people of this kind.
    Kurt



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