Author: Mark Young
Date: 21:11:28 11/12/98
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On November 12, 1998 at 15:27:54, Bruce Moreland wrote: > >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. Shirov is the best I have seen, I played many games with him and only got one draw, and that was the last game I ever played him. > >bruce
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