Author: Chris Hull
Date: 06:48:31 04/29/04
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On April 29, 2004 at 09:25:40, Kurt Utzinger wrote: >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 I would like to respectfully disagree. If she tries to play a boring style, the computer can punish her by putting her in a passive position and then build up a winning attack. It would be best for her to steer the game into a closed position where her positional knowledge would be superior and let the computer try and come up with a plan, thus avoiding a tactical shootout that is the computer's strength. Anyways, it takes two to make an opening and I am sure the computer will have a lot to say about it. Good Luck Zhu Chen and good chess. Chris Hull
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