Author: Uri Blass
Date: 07:46:28 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 interesting question is if you can get with that strategy a lot of draws against kasparov and kramnik. If not then why not. I know about sombody with 2236 Israeli rating and 2170 fide rating(naftali ben pinchas) who use similiar strategy against humans and almost never lose games. In the last tournament that he played some months ago he got 9 draws from 9 games including draws against IM's. You can see the table of the tournament in the following link http://www14.brinkster.com/holonchess/Gof/IM.asp It may be interesting if he can do the same against GM's or computers but unfortunately his rating is not high enough to let him to play against GM's. Uri
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