Author: A. Steen
Date: 19:29:52 11/20/05
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On November 20, 2005 at 22:06:35, Thomas Logan wrote: >Appreciated > >Tom You are welcome to my humble efforts! :) But appreciate 100x more the brilliancy of 26. .. Ra-g8! by GM Kasimdzhanov, who would have worked out most of the variations I have given without touching a chess piece let alone a computer before he played that move - and in just a short time no doubt - only to be insulted by some people as having only played "nonsense" and shown bad judgment against a computer, going for a "suicidal attack", etc. All this when his brilliancy led to a certain draw, no rashness, no suicidal attack, just icy-cold calculated brilliance. But the insults to Kasimdzhanov (not just here)! What a wasted pearl. "When a genius comes into the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him." - Jonathan Swift :) To me, the game shows the superiority of Kasimdzhanov over Hydra. His human blunder on move 34 right at the end of a most successful manouevre does not spoil this. K's error is like that other K's sad error against the cowardly Deep Blue II in the final game. Each K psyched himself out of a better result (a draw in the case of the lesser K, the probable win of the match in the case of the big K, who had already resigned a drawn position out of overly high respect). Tomorrow, I hope my cumulatives against Fruity will approach 80%, fast PC used, I don't have the computer analysis visible while playing and don't view that of past games, don't take back moves and don't give myself extra time. Does that make me 3000+ ELO? I think not, for that would make Fritz9 and Shredder9 3100+ ELO! I am not knocking Fruit, but vs a human like me it seems much weaker than the other two. http://www.talkchess.com/forums/1/message.html?463246 :) We humans must stop being so afraid of these monsters. At correspondence chess, have you sean the beating given to Hydra? I assume it was not a Nickel-cyborg playing. Best, A.S.
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