Author: Kurt Utzinger
Date: 06:25:40 04/29/04
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On April 29, 2004 at 08:33:40, Pablo Rodriguez wrote:
>On April 29, 2004 at 08:08:36, Kurt Utzinger wrote:
>
>>On April 29, 2004 at 06:03:56, Jouni Uski wrote:
>>
>>>I don't know if this is discussed previously here, but anyway:
>>>
>>>"China's women's world chess champion Zhu Chen will take on a Chinese-made super
>>>laptop in early June for a two-game contest.
>>>
>>>The human vs machine contest is the first of its kind in China and a female
>>>version of the famous showdown between Russian chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov
>>>against IBM computers.
>>>
>>>Zhu Chen will play against the Unisplendour Star laptop developed by Tsinghua
>>>Unisplendour on June 8th and 12th in Beijing.
>>>
>>>The laptop, claimed to be one of the world's most powerful chess-playing
>>>notebook computers, will be released in May. And the contest will surely give it
>>>enormous publicity."
>>>
>>>Which program?? I think any program from SSDF top 40 will be enough to Zhen :-)
>>>
>>>Jouni
>>
>>
>> Any program from the SSDF top 5 will not win one single game
>> if Zhen decides to play for only a draw with a very very boring style.
>> Kurt
>
>
> What do you mean by boring style? Sometimes it happens that i play against my
>computer and manage a drawing/winning position after trading pieces very fast. ,
>my opinion is that there are very few people in the world that can hold the
>enormous strength of a ssdf top 5 in a classical time control. Personally, i
>think closing the position or trading pieces won't work against Shredder or
>Junior, maybe if she plays Crafty or Yace she might have a chance, but still
>50/50, or better for the computer.
If someone has a good knowledge of all openings (like GM's)
he/she will be able in just every opening/game to play a
boring line with no winning prospects for both sides. And
in such lines the risk to make faults is very small. With
such a strategy and treading as much pieces a possible, even
2000 Elo strong (weak) humans can still get a lot of draws
against the top engines. The drawback of this is obvious:
nobody is interested in such (boring) games and BTW: it's
of course no fun to do so.
Kurt
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