Author: Uri Blass
Date: 15:52:07 05/22/05
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On May 22, 2005 at 16:45:24, Robert Hollay wrote: > I'm not a strong chess player myself and cannot find a satisfactory answer >to this question. > I was thought that so called "anti-chess or anticomp-chess" could be prevented >with just making some trifling changes in engines. > But some engine-programmers expressed in this forum that if they would tune >their engines against "anti-chess" players, then the engines would be weaker in >playing "normal chess". Consequently, it's not possible to write an engine >which could play the strongest possible "normal chess" and at the same time >efficiently prevent the opponent to play "anti-chess". >My question is: > Theoretically, is this applicable (to a certain extent) against human players? >If relatively weak players can draw against the top engines, why couldn't an IM >achieve always a draw against a GM? (using the so called "stonewall" technique) > >Robert I think that there are probably IM's who can always or almost always draw against GM's but never become GM's because they also draw against weaker players. I know that naftali ben pinhas drew 9 games in an international tournament against humans without a single loss or a single win. He is even not a master and his fide rating is only 2170 but part of his opponents in the tournament were IM's. Uri
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