Author: Joachim Rang
Date: 07:46:20 07/18/05
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On July 18, 2005 at 06:50:03, Jorge Pichard wrote: >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 okay we'll see. However I think Baron has improved to the stage where it will be hard for Svidler to achieve the draw. regards Joachim
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