Computer Chess Club Archives


Search

Terms

Messages

Subject: Re: Almasi shocks Shredder ...

Author: Kurt Utzinger

Date: 04:49:12 08/11/05

Go up one level in this thread


On August 11, 2005 at 04:52:27, Uri Blass wrote:

>On August 11, 2005 at 04:05:19, Günther Simon wrote:
>
>>On August 11, 2005 at 03:59:42, Uri Blass wrote:
>>
>>>On August 11, 2005 at 03:19:55, Kurt Utzinger wrote:
>>>
>>>>On August 11, 2005 at 02:45:07, Madhavan wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>On August 11, 2005 at 01:07:58, Kurt Utzinger wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>... due to its very bad opening play. Such
>>>>>>silly things can/should never happen in
>>>>>>classical chess. It's just ridiculous.
>>>>>>Kurt
>>>>>
>>>>>How come Shredder won several tournament titles?
>>>>>How do you know Almasi plays decent chess openeings?
>>>>
>>>>     In a German forum it was reported that
>>>>     "Shredder had after 3 moves a much better
>>>>     and after 10 moves a won position". This
>>>>     means for me that FRC (Chess960) even on
>>>>     such a top level is somewhat ridiculous.
>>>>     Kurt
>>>
>>>Or maybe it means that slower time control than classical chess should be used
>>>in FRC to prevent this type of errors(at least in the high level).
>>>
>>>Uri
>>
>>I thought the games were just rapid chess anyway?
>>
>>Guenther
>
>I also think that they were rapid chess and I see no reason to generate events
>that almost nobody is interested in them.
>
>At least the match of the baron was 25+10 time control based on reading the
>following post when 25+10 is mentioned in the pgn
>http://www.talkchess.com/forums/1/message.html?441035

     25m+10s is much too fast for human players
     and at this TC humans will have almost no chance.
     This event is not worth watching for me.
     Kurt



This page took 0 seconds to execute

Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700

Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.