Author: Derek Paquette
Date: 13:13:46 09/10/03
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On September 10, 2003 at 16:03:50, Juergen Wolf wrote: >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 oops, i didn't realize it was cc
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