Author: Dane Peshe
Date: 22:42:01 03/13/99
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On March 12, 1999 at 15:59:31, Albert Silver wrote: >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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