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

Author: Jorge Pichard

Date: 18:33:27 07/18/05

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On July 18, 2005 at 15:57:26, Joachim Rang wrote:

>On July 18, 2005 at 14:23:54, Jorge Pichard wrote:
>
>>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
>
>
>hm, if he tries to win he will loose :-(. He still can draw both games when he
>plays clever and with 100% concentration.
>
>Time is over for humans to beat comps...
>
>regards Joachim

Joachim, Joachim, do you realize that Peter Svidler is rated 2738 FIDE and
Baron-FRC even at Blitz time control of 25min plus 10 sec increment is NOT, and
it will NOT play higher than 2700, unless you bring a Super Fast Quad SMP
machine.

Jorge



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