Author: Andrea Griffini
Date: 13:50:04 08/18/03
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Hmmm... I think that if a currently strong chess program has to play 2 secs/move against a human at regular time and *being allowed to ponder* then using a multi-reply pondering approach (i mean not just ponder on the next move of last PV) I would say that the number of humans able to win is much less than 0.01% of the total number of chess players. Once during the lunch pause in a rapid chess tournament I've seen a poor IM playing for money against a 1500 player (I've seen this regurarly, and against 1900 players he was normally playing one or two minutes against 5 minutes for money). Being the opponent only 1500 they agreed so that IM was given 1 minute on the clock, and the 1500 player 15 minutes. The IM of course chewed 1500 player's like a piece of cake... but the really funny part was when this player said us after paying the bet ... "I think I know how he did it.... he was thinking on my time also!!". We all almost died from laughing too much at this remark.
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