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

Author: Jorge Pichard

Date: 11:23:54 07/18/05

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On July 18, 2005 at 10:46:20, Joachim Rang wrote:

>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


I believe that if Peter Svidler try hard without taking any risks he will beat
Baron-Frc, knowing that by winning, he will definitively play against
Shredder-Frc later on for a bigger price money :-)

PS: It is all on the planning and this is the best way to advertise the future
match :-)

Jorge



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