Author: Mike S.
Date: 20:33:59 11/25/03
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On November 25, 2003 at 09:34:35, Mig Greengard wrote: >(...) With man-machine it's obvious. A >Grandmaster-trained book of millions of moves has nothing to do with man vs >machine at all. It's man's analysts against the machine's analyts. Unplugging >the engine for 20 moves is silly. It's not obvious to me, when the human master has *white*. About 1.000 elos below that level :-) I once got somewhat afraid of playing 1.e4, because typically, my opponents who responded 1...c5 seemed to know every variant and every trick in the sicilian. Most often I lost quickly whatever I tried (I'm an opening neanderthal). Can you guess why I'm not afraid of 1...c5 anymore? I play 1.e4 c5 2.e5 Simple, surprising and perfectly playable for White. And when a GM would play like that against computers, from 3 million database positions 2.999.998 are immediatly useless, and it's man versus engine. There's no excuse for not playing 1.e4 against a computer, even less when it's a normal part of the repertoire against humans, for a GM. I can't take that serious. Regards, Mike Scheidl
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