Author: Madhavan
Date: 05:42:14 06/07/05
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On June 06, 2005 at 20:12:12, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: >On June 06, 2005 at 19:43:07, Mark Ryan wrote: > >>Some more of Chrilly's comments at chessgames.com: >> >>"June 1: >>In the correspondence games Hydra-Chimeira played with own books made by the >>sponsor. But this was not the reason for the loss. GM Nickel was in this games >>simply better. In the sparring matches GM Lutz+Shredder&Fritz against Hydra, >>Lutz was somewhat better than Hydra-Chimeira. But Hydra-Scylla has already a >>slight edge over this combination. >> >>June 4: >>Besides these, Hydra is not unbeatable at all. We estimate that the programm has >>about 2950 Elo. Fritz, Shredder about 2800. 150 Elo more does not mean, that one >>can not loose. The combination of strong human player plus Shredder&Fritz is >>according our internal results about as strong as Hydra. >> >>June 5: >>In contrast to common believe is opening theory the point where Top-GMs are >>certainly superior to the machines. This is the part of the game the programmers >>really fear. >>Top-GMs do not fear the opening, but the tablebases. E.g. in human-human games >>Queen against Rook is usually won. But it is well known, that humans have >>considerable problems to win this endgame against a database." > >Again showing little insight in chess. I'm just a weak player in comparision to >the GM's targeted here. Fidemaster is what i am. > >FM >after that comes IM >after that comes GM > >I didn't make it further so far than FM. > >However queen versus rook i win blindfolded, also against the EGTBs. > >The matter is not whether i use a perfect number of moves. Just win it within 50 >moves. Reality shows that you usually are 20% off the perfect path and the last >10 moves only 1 or 2 moves extra are needed. > >So in reality you always put it mate. > >In highschool i used to play such endgames for money. Me 1 minute on the clock. >They 5. what's all this about?you talking to whom? this is not related to the subject. cut the crap,vincent. >The fear for EGTBs is just not true. The only type of fear there is, is that >within a year or 30 the GM's lose their income because chessprograms will be a >lot better by then than they are now. So far that has not been the case. In fact >Hydra single handed delivers lots of money to GM's directly. > >Vincent
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