Author: Jonas Cohonas
Date: 14:44:44 07/28/05
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>>>This is untrue. I've read the challenge and there nothing is mentioned about >>>this 1 hour rule! It's simply not there. So it's unfair if this man goes away >>>with it. Ed fulfilled the exact challenge. >> >>I was under the impression that the one hour rule was meant as a joke... > > >I told Eduard the same. But I would really enjoy if Jorge NOW would give Eduard >his prize money. Because now it's no longer a joke - it's becoming kind of >humiliating, dont you think so? Yes that's why i was being sarcastic about it. Already in the German CSS we had that same >debate. People misused and humiliated Eduard because of his "seriousness". The >same here now. Because companies and programmers dont appreciate Eduard's >computerbashing they ridicule him. Since Jorge is always citing news from the >ChessBase site it's not surprising that he violates Eduard. FF did it before. At >first FF proposed Eduard a challenge but then quickly he changed the conditions. >Of course he was anxious that Eduard disenchanted the famous FRITZ. What they >then tried is to urge Eduard to Hamburg and he then should play against a FRITZ >with a special anti-Eduard [!!] book. Perhaps written by a GM advised by >Kasparov. Ridiculous indeed. Ridiculous under academic perspectives. I don't know about these personal quarrels, but Eduard to me seems like a real nice guy and he is obviously a really good chess player. >Actually business killed almost all academic fun out of computerchess. And if we >wait another 20 years then Eduard could no longer hold pace with the hardware >when he has trained on his 500 Mhz... Tatatatata. > >P.S. Actually Chrilly is boasting with his HYDRA. In London no amateur could be >dangerous for the machine. Of course not, because chess always was and always >will be a game with training and experience. Without training on the machines >you can't win anything. But this doesn't prove the strength of the machines but >the the tricky manoeuvring of the business people. I don't agree with this, atleast the part "the tricky manoeuvring of the business people", this to me looks like tricky maneuvering by an amateur ;) If you look at the quality of the moves that Hydra makes, it is obvious to me atleast that it is quite special, no matter what hype either side makes. They became more and more >successful in hiding the weaknesses (veritable stupidities) of their machines in >chess. Chess in these show events has degenerated into mere gambling. And it's >also trivial that Eduard had no chance against these machines if he couldn't >train and practice and learn on the job. I don't think it is that simple. Jonas
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