Author: Thomas Mayer
Date: 13:06:21 05/21/05
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Hi Jonas, > quote: "It's obvious Hydra has significant weaknesses with anti-chess > tactics." > What do you base that assumption on? I think because players around or beyond 2000 Elo can beat or at least draw Hydra quite often. At least more often then the rating difference (they claim to be around or even higher then 3000 on their webpage) allows. In my opinion the hole story is about how good are computers in chess really. As long players around 2000 with a special system can achieve wins and draws as much as they want, they might be not as strong as some rating lists, e.g. the SSDF makes us believe. Maybe a good idea for Adams would be to play initially for a draw to win maybe finally. He might not need to use exactly the system, Pablo is using, but maybe for him it would be a good idea to take a closer look in those games. Also he might take a closer look to the games Eduard Nemeth presents and also those by Kurt Utzinger. That should give him enough ideas how to draw the beast most of the time. Greets, Thomas P.S.: I am well aware that it is for sure not easy to play for a draw against Hydra, because it is so aggresiv, but I am quite sure that it can be done. The question is if that is not against the nature of GMs...
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