Author: Telmo C. Escobar
Date: 17:02:05 05/20/05
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On May 20, 2005 at 17:40:02, jim r uselton wrote: >Let's say a person has access to a time machine and grabs his shredder 7 and >goes back to the year 1924. Let's say,For the sake of argument, he talks his way >in to the great New York Tournament. This guy doesn't know much chess so he lets >his Shredder do all the playing. My question is---where do you think he would >finish, first---fourth---last? > >Thanks for your input! > Jim Not last, as some players (Ed Lasker, Janowski) were in bad form and made many gross mistakes. Fourth or fifth, may be. Some of those guys playing at NY 1924 were exceedingly clever. People somewhat misunderstand the situation concerning chess engines. It's true that, say, a match Anand vs Shredder would be a close contest. But a tournament where the players are, say, 1.Kasparov 2.Anand 3.Kramnik 4.Ivanchuk 5.Leko 6.Topalov 7.Polgar 8.Shredder would be not so favorable for the silicon monster, as the human players would be fond of playing for a draw or playing "anticomputer" chess against it, while playing normal chess between them. Bobby Fischer found himself, allegedly, in a similar situation forty years ago, when playing a closed tornament against a battery of Soviet players. Telmo
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