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Subject: Re: Shredder-FRC will be playing Vs GM Zoltan Almasi on the August 10

Author: Jorge Pichard

Date: 04:39:52 07/18/05

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On July 18, 2005 at 06:05:30, Joachim Rang wrote:

>On July 17, 2005 at 13:49:00, Jorge Pichard wrote:
>
>>On July 17, 2005 at 13:18:16, Joachim Rang wrote:
>>
>>>On July 17, 2005 at 12:17:23, Jorge Pichard wrote:
>>>
>>>>    Pick the winner on both of this matches
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>      Peter Svidler vs The Baron-Frc, and Zoltan Almasi vs Shredder-Frc. The
>>>>exhibition matches will be played just before the Chess960 World Championship in
>>>>Mainz, on August 10, at the location of the Chess960 WCC. Time control will be
>>>>25min plus 10 sec increment, 2 games. As a novelty, both programs will play
>>>>without tablebases. The games will be played on standard single processor P4s.
>>>>
>>>>Jorge
>>>
>>>Svidler-Baron: 0,5-1.5
>>>Almasi-Shredder: 0-2
>>>
>>>not really interesting...
>>
>>What about Svidler vs Shredder-Frc ?
>>Almasi vs Baronn FRC ?
>>
>>PS: Would those be interesting matches?
>>Jorge
>
>
>no given the circumstances.
>
>Why I think both GM will loose badly:
>
>1. This is rapid chess - a big advantage for any program
>2. This is a "warm-up"- Match for the GMs. That means no special preparation,
>they don't take it seriously and they won't play with maximum power to save
>energy for the "real event".
>
>
>However I think Chess960 favors the programs even more than normal chess since
>the human won't be able to reach positions he understands and is comfortanble
>with. Chess960 is tactics from the very beginning I doubt we will see a
>Chess960-Match against any decent engine which can be drawn by the human.
>
>regards Joachim


It already happened in last year Chess Classic Mainz 2004, please take a look:

Chess960 Man vs. Machine Match
This match was staged on Wednesday, August 4th 2004. It saw GM Levon Aronian
take on the Dutch program The Baron by Richard Pijl in the Fischer Random
variant of chess. Both games were drawn, with Aronian making what the
organisers' home page describes as "an hilarious mistake" – he forgot the exact
castling rules for the queenside and had to be corrected by the computer
program. The final score was 1:1.

http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=1831

PS: also take into consideration that Richard used a Dual SMP machine and for
this match it will be a standard single P4 processor.

Jorge



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