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Subject: Re: Tournament of the century

Author: Igor Syry

Date: 22:52:55 02/12/99

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On February 12, 1999 at 17:15:01, blass uri wrote:

>
>On February 12, 1999 at 16:56:20, Jeremiah Penery wrote:
>
>>On February 12, 1999 at 16:45:57, Dann Corbit wrote:
>>
>>>On February 12, 1999 at 16:37:32, Eugene Nalimov wrote:
>>>
>>>>On February 12, 1999 at 15:30:46, Dann Corbit wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>On February 12, 1999 at 15:23:45, Bruce Moreland wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>On February 12, 1999 at 13:31:33, Alain Lyrette wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Hey gang!Want to know who's the real champion of the world?How about a 4
>>>>>>>player's tournament?Kasparov,Anand,Karpov and...Deepest blue?Your prediction
>>>>>>>please.....
>>>>>>
>>>>>>I think I know who would finish 4th.
>>>>>Who?
>>>>>I would guess Karpov.
>>>>
>>>>IMHO, it'll be much easier for Karpov to play against DB than either
>>>>for Kasparov or Anand. It'll be much easier for him to properly play
>>>>anti-computer startegy than for other two.
>>>Well, he would still have to beat Anand and/or Kasparov.  I figure he would meet
>>>Anand in the consolation round and get beat.  I was not aware of his
>>>anti-computer ability.  Is this due to his style of play (closed?) or experience
>>>against computers or???
>>
>>That'd certainly be my guess.  Karpov doesn't like to take even the smallest
>>chance...His play is much less tactical than the others, which would be good
>>against DB - if anyone tries to get into a tactical bout with DB, even Kasparov,
>>he's _very_ likely to lose.
>>Maybe Karpov would do no better against DB than the others, but he won't really
>>have to change his style much, like the others might - it'll be easier on him.
>>
>>Jeremiah
>
>I do not agree about it.
>karpov won deep thought only because of a mistake of deep thought in a drawn
>rook endings
>I do not know about achievements of karpov in the past against computers.
>

I do not really understand  how a computer can make a "mistake"? Mistake is
really a "human" attribute.
Anyway, what counts is that Karpov won. Doesn't matter when a computer made a
mistake, in the openint, middle game or ending.

>I think that karpov is the worst player against computers(relative to humans
>with similiar rating).
>
>Uri

I think this is doutbtful. Do you have any statistiscs on this?

Regards,

igor



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