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Subject: Re: Is the Hydra vs Shredder... ?

Author: Bigler

Date: 08:22:49 05/04/05

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On May 04, 2005 at 05:36:59, Uri Blass wrote:

>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


Where can I find these games ?
Nevertheless, can we say that Shredder-Hydra was the highest at tournament time
control !??

regards



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