Author: Drexel,Michael
Date: 13:31:11 05/21/05
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On May 21, 2005 at 16:06:21, Thomas Mayer wrote: >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 can`t. Pablo scores about 20% with the Stonewall. they might be not as strong as some rating lists, e.g. the >SSDF makes us believe. ´ The SSDF "makes us believe" nothing. It`s a Computer rating list. > >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. He really doesn`t need that. He is a SuperGM and can draw at will with the white pieces. Wenn er so spielen würde wäre das ein Armutszeugniss. Michael > >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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