Author: Robert Hollay
Date: 03:38:08 06/29/05
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On June 29, 2005 at 06:15:27, Tony Nichols wrote: >On June 29, 2005 at 05:25:51, Otello Gnaramori wrote: > >>On June 29, 2005 at 01:45:49, Tony Nichols wrote: >> >>>GM's to take computer matches more seriously. As it stands they never know if >>>they will get to play a comp match or not, Preparation for a comp match could >>>just be a waste of time. Clearly there must be huge incentive for a GM to devote >>>the necessary amount of time to preparing for such matches. I don't think a one >>>off match is good enough. Maybe, If we had annual matches top GM's would be >>>convinced that all the preperation would pay off? >>>Regards >>>Tony >> >>The incentive was quite huge in monetary form in the Hydra Match...and also in >>past Man machine events. >> >>w.b.r. >>Otello > >Yes, The money was huge, But not so huge that Adams would take a few months to >prepare. He is a very active GM. Time preparing would mean time not earning >money. Even if he scored say 3.5-2.5. The type of preparation spent for a comp >match would do him no good for the rest of his career. In fact, It could hurt >his results as it did with Kramnik after he played Fritz. I'm not making excuses > for humans. Hydra played very strong. If a top GM prepares fully for a match, >He may still get crushed. At least, Then we will know the true strength of >Hydra. >Regards >Tony Maybe Hydra's appropriate opponent should not be a top10 GM, but a GM who plays well against comps, and has time and motivation to be well prepared. Loek van Wely, for example, who achieved a draw against Rebel (2002). GM Loek van Wely about the match: "You can not play your own style against the computer, that's about close to suicide, you must play the anti-computer strategy and be well prepared, I played about 100 games against REBEL as part of my preparation." If you invite a "normal" top GM to play against computers, it's like asking Luciano Pavarotti to sing Hip-hop. Robert
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