Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 12:27:54 11/12/98
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On November 12, 1998 at 14:19:58, Quenton Fyfe wrote: >Imagine there was a world championship in which all the strongest chess players >were competing against all the strongest computers. Humans only play computers, >not each other; computers only play humans. Anyone care to speculate on the top >few human places ? How would it compare to the top places in the human >championship ? > >My $.02: > >1) Seirawan >2) Karpov >3) Anand This used to be done every year, it was called the AEGON tournament, and it was held in Holland. You had most of the top micros against a wide variety of humans including some GM's including in this last case Seirawan. Kosashavili, Bronstein, Christiansen, etc. These are not the top names on the FIDE list but they are the ones that wanted to play some computers. Kosashavili won the last one with 6.0 out of 6.0, Seirawan was 2nd with 5.5. The supplied machines were Pentium Pro 200's, which at that time was state of the art. It's an interesting question how Seirawan would do in comparison with some other top players. I think he would do very well, he is very experienced with computers and amazingly astute with tactics. I had the fortune to play with him about six blitz games live at that tournament. It wa amazing watching him, because I'd make a move for my program, he'd immediately get a sour look on his face, and they he'd say "oh" in this very hard to explain tone, and *then* my program would fail low. This isn't supposed to happen against humans in blitz chess. Another one who people wouldn't expect to do well, but who would probably do great, would be Shirov. His style wouldn't seem to be a good match with computers, but I think that's a superficial assessment, I think he's better at tactics than the computers, and I think he'd just rip them open like cheap tin cans. bruce
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