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Subject: Re: about the correspondence tournament against computers

Author: Juergen Wolf

Date: 13:03:50 09/10/03

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On September 10, 2003 at 12:59:21, Uri Blass wrote:

>There is a correspondense player(ICCF rating 2384 and Fide rating 2269)
>who believes that he can achieve no worse than 5-1 against computers in the same
>conditions that Arno Nickel plays(2585 Elo in cc)
>
>see
>http://www.correspondencechess.com/bbs/messages/49460.html
>
>He told me by email that he is also interested in playing a similiar match.
>I do not think that chessbase will agree (they have not infinite computer time)
>but I thought that maybe it is possible to use some posters here as operaters(I
>do not have computer time for that task)
>
>What is your opinion?
>
>Can he get 5-1 against computers?

since i play correspondence chess (for example one win/no loss against the
former world champion in 1st CC bundesliga) and having some experience in chess
programming i think that i'm somehow qualify to express my opening. I think a
result of
3:2 is more realistic than 5:1,assuming he doesnot outplay the computer in the
opening because of a bad opening-book. In order to achieve this result he would
have to use at least one computer by his own in order to check his move for
tactical blunder. He would have to force the computer to play an opening where
he is an expert (otherwise he will loose the competition), this must be a quiete
opening with tactical possibilities. I recall that i played against one very
stong CC-player i had the impression that my counterpart is using fritz. So
i decided in one position to make not the best move , where i knew that Fritz
doesn;t find the best countermove (not the best , using a correct answer
it would have been draw) . As expected my opponent played the Fritz-move
(probably he did run Fritz for 3 days only, but didn't analyzed with the
computer) and some moves later i could sacrifice my knight and win the position.
This sacrifice i found before i played the second-best-move.  But this kind
of scenario is in my opinion very rare. Usually the choice of opening decides
the outcome of a CC-game (who is more familiar with the position)

>Are there people with fast hardware that can give their computers to play
>against him(we need 6 different fast computers when Tansel Turgut does not
>know the programs that he is playing).
>
>Uri



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