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

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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