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Subject: Re: about the correspondence tournament against computers

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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