Author: Terry McCracken
Date: 05:47:48 11/27/03
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On November 27, 2003 at 08:44:59, Otello Gnaramori wrote: >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 I'm sorry that's not true, as if it were I wouldn't have any wins to my credit. Terry
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