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Subject: Re: IF beating Hydra was Fischers get out of Jail Free Card, how many th

Author: Telmo C. Escobar

Date: 20:52:36 10/19/04

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On October 19, 2004 at 18:49:23, odell jones wrote:

>Fischer would win? Soppose the conditions were that Fischer could train for 1
>month and be given all the games ever played by hydra. COULD FISCHER TAME THE
>SEVEN HEADED MONSTER?? Let's say in a ten game match?

 I think Fischer could win. Hydra is a formidable opponent, but my impresion is
that the main treasons some grandmasters have found so hard to tame the monster,
is that they had renounced the fight to impose their personal style and vision
of the game (when they have one) so becoming too much preocupated for the
opponent.
To win against he computer, you have to have a great understanding of the game
more an undisturbed conviction of being championing the truth. Fischer fulfilled
these conditions.

 Certainly Fischer could lose due to tiredness or insufficient training. At
sixty, one could lose a match to an inferior opponent. After all, Steinitz lost
to Lasker in 1894 despite his vast strategical superiority over his younger
opponent.

  Telmo



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