Author: Otello Gnaramori
Date: 05:44:59 11/27/03
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On November 27, 2003 at 05:45:32, ludicrous wrote: >To me it looks like this: > >Comps play 2800 level - yes - under certain circumstances. Give them wide open >positions - they play like a 2800 player. Let them play in a Category 12-14 >tournament - and they walk away win the first prize. > >They are like Supermen with a weakness (kryptonite, which is Anti Computer >Chess). Let them play special players like Mr Nemeth, and these comps show some >stupidity. Mr. Nemeth is playing with a quite slow machine and not a tournament timings, and he only publish his victories...not his defeats neither draws against the machine. > >I agree partially with the previous post - I can't really consider comps an >ideally solid 2800 elo rated player if they can be consistently beaten (ask >eduard nementh) or halted to a draw. Can Kasparov be constantly beaten by >someone whose rating is much lower than his? They can't be consistently beaten, since it's very hard to steer in a closed pos and win. Only occasionally you can get the win (the best you can hope is a draw), but you have to be Kasparov to do that nowadays. w.b.r. Otello
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