Author: Terry Giles
Date: 14:41:49 08/26/04
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On August 26, 2004 at 14:52:13, Pallav Nawani wrote: >On August 26, 2004 at 08:26:47, Terry Giles wrote: > >>On August 26, 2004 at 01:11:16, Vikrant Malvankar wrote: >> >>>Well I think Anand at the moment is the Best Player in the World. That he is >>>left out of Reunification speaks for Kasparov's dictatorship of the Chess World. >>>As for Hydra vs Anand which was discussed yesterday what makes people think that >>>At present Kasparov can beat Hydra but Anand can not. Well you r an idiot if u >>>dont see that Anand is a much better anticomputer player than gary. Anand will >>>crush Hydra forget Kasparov and Kramnik. (Sorry Madhavan I forgot Anand) >>> >>>Regards >>> >>>Vikrant >> >>From July 21 to July 23, 1998 REBEL in Italy on the island Ischia played 8 chess >>games against the world's SECOND BEST chess player Vishy Anand >>The score was 5-3 in REBEL's favour! (REBEL was running on a conventional PC) >> >>Terry > >(1) They were blitz matches (You conveniently forgot to mention that). >(2) They were all played in one day (I think - Ed will probably know better), so > he might have been a bit fatigued. >(3) That was 1998. Anand is the best player in the world TODAY. He got the chess >oscar last year - HE is the second player to have gotten it twice. First was >kasparov. > >Pallav I didn't 'conveniently' forget, I actually forgot! OK point taken, but Anand is probably the world's best blitz chess player. Yes it was in 1998, but that also means 1998 computer technology too. I just don't believe that he would "crush" Hydra as suggested.
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