Author: Jonas Cohonas
Date: 13:38:19 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. If it happens often i would like to see the games (don't forget to include the losses of these players too) >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. I think that there is an illusion of some sort here, we only see the odd win on time (which i am absolutely sure would not occur in a serious match) and the occational draw, but they don't post the vast amount of lost games that is a result of their attempt to get a positive result. When all this is said i agree that the computers have weaknesses that humans can exploit through special sytems and such, but i haven't seen one successful (in serious events at classical time controls) since Kramnik's Stonewall some time back against Junior i think and a couple of games in the man v machine games following that. I don't consider winning on time a queen and two rooks down successful, at best it points out where programmers need to work. >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. I am sure that under serious conditions at classical time controls, they would not be remotely as successful in getting the odd results as they seem to be at times now. Jonas
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