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Subject: Re: Is it safe to say then that Computers today play 2800 level chess?

Author: Otello Gnaramori

Date: 08:12:03 11/27/03

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On November 27, 2003 at 08:47:48, Terry McCracken wrote:

>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

If you think to be able to beat the comps consistently and sistematically you
should candidate yourself for the next match man - machine :)

w.b.r.
Otello




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