Author: Jonas Cohonas
Date: 03:46:38 10/06/05
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>I think that finding the strongest move on the board does depend on whom you are >playing at the time. >I remember Kasparov playing Nigel Short in the 1993 Times World Championship, >Nigel was in a winning position but short on time. The commentators had already >pointed out a winning combination for Nigel. Kasparov thought for a long time, >the commentators joked that maybe Kasparov was going to produce an extra Queen >or something. The audience (us) were listing on headphones and laughed at this. >Kasparov immediately raised his hands and glared at us, then settled back down >and played an outrageously aggressive pawn move. Nobody had looked at this but >after 30 secs or so the commentators realised that this move did nothing. >However the move shook Nigel up so much that after using up even more of his >precious time offered a draw. Kasparov snatched his hand off! > One could argue that Kasparov found the strongest move and that Nigel lost half a point due to either not finding the strongest reply or being affected by the psychology when he should have looked at finding the strongest move. > >"What Mr. Karpov is obviously not aware of is how much his statements on this >>subject says about himself and his reasoning as opposed to a general explanation >>of why "Humans occasionally lose to computers in long timed games"." > > > >If you look at my earlier post I think you will find that Karpov not only >doesn’t know about Fruit and co but also doesn’t care. For Karpov to play chess >it’s a battle against a human opponent and all the physiological extras that >brings. For him playing a computer is something you do to pass the time before >crushing an opponent for real. If he dosen't know about them he, again, obviously hasen't paid attention and should not imply that computers are only strong in blitz, also Fruit and Zappa aside, his claims lacks knowledge. As to the the claim that he dosen't care about them, well he cares enough about them to downplay their strength to a point where he looks "uninformed" to put it mildly. Regards Jonas
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