Author: Uri Blass
Date: 02:36:59 05/04/05
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On May 04, 2005 at 05:16:23, Uri Blass wrote: >On May 04, 2005 at 04:59:32, Bigler wrote: > >>Is the Hydra vs Shredder match in 2004 the highest chess level ever played ? > >No >Shredder suffered in that match from a serious bug and the match was also not in >correspondence time control but tournament time control when there are matches >when side have more than 24 hours per move. > >There are clearly matches with higher level > >see for example GM nickel against engines in >http://www.chessfriend.com/ > >Of course nickel has the right to use the engines and the target is to check if >the combination human+engines is better than the engines. > > >He also played against hydra and beat it 2-0 >Hydra still did not resign in game 1 based on the report but it is clear that >nickel is winning. > >Note that Nickel is probably not the strongest player in the world in >correspondence chess so there are probably correspondence games with higher >level. > >Uri If you look for highest level games maybe the games of Oosterom, Joop J. van in the world correspondence championship can help you. He did a very good result of 11/14(8 wins and 6 draws) in the correspondence world championship(people are allowed to use computers) Considering the fact that today it is very hard to win correspondence games because both sides use computers and most games are drawn I consider this result as a surprise. Uri
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