Author: Pablo Rodriguez
Date: 10:58:26 04/29/04
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On April 29, 2004 at 13:09:15, Jason Kent wrote: >> 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 > >According to FIDE Chen is the 8th best women chess player, rated 324 points >lower than kasparov. > >I've seen a game in a database where Kasparov lost a knight in the first 10-15 >moves vs nigel short. Nobody knows all of the opening theory. That game was played under blitz time controls... > >Blunders are still common among humans, and in a series of (boring) draws, one >mistake and a loss makes it very hard for the human to win! > >8 Zhu, Chen g CHN 2493 13 1976-03-16
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