Author: Albert Silver
Date: 12:59:31 03/12/99
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On March 11, 1999 at 20:52:50, James T. Walker wrote:
>On March 11, 1999 at 20:01:26, odell hall wrote:
>
>>Hi CCC
>>
>> I am just interested in some speculation. I think that he could, but I know
>>computers have a reputation for being able to hang on to extra material.
>
>Hello Odell,
>If you read Larry K's Chess Life article you might think it would be close.
>According to Larry if I remember right the rook pawn is only worth .85 x 200 or
>170 points. That's not enough. Larry also said that Knight odds would be worth
>700 points ??? I don't believe a 2175 player with knight odds would stand a
>chance against Garry K. I ran some test years ago with computers giving queen
>Knight odds and it seems it was worth about 300 points. So my opinion is Hiarcs
>would not have much of a chance.
>Jim Walker
Hmmm... I don't know that I'd compare a computer program from years ago with one
of today's and particularly not on today's hardware. Plus I can't agree with the
knight odds. Give me a knight up from the beginning with a 2500 player any day
of the week! A whole extra knight is enormous. Unless I began getting
excessively cocky or adventurous, I don't see what could happen. A piece is a
piece but a pawn could be another story. The reason is that a pawn can hinder
development and could thus be compensated intelligently to some degree. But I'd
give a heavy nod to Kasparov against a micro. Can't imagine it would stand much
of a chance against him even running on multi-gigaherz hardware.
Albert Silver
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