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Subject: Re: Bilbao - Father

Author: Odd Gunnar Malin

Date: 23:16:45 11/23/05

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On November 23, 2005 at 16:23:00, Sune Larsson wrote:

>On November 23, 2005 at 15:39:45, Ovidio Santistevan wrote:
>
>>Of course not!  IMO, Pono played like that because he does not understand how to
>>play against a program! If you play against somebody/something who constantly
>>beats you, then, in the end, you lose most of the motivations.
>
>
> I think Pono's game today was very similar to Father's. Blocking the position
>and then just shuffling the pieces. Totally uninteresting - for Pono too of
>course. These GM:s want to prove something chessy vs other humans - not vs
>machines...
>
>/S

Or you can turn it around :)

If the programmer want to play 100+ moves in a draw position to see if the human
make a blunder it will be harder to get GM's to play in these events and the
pricetag goes up. Luckly this strategy by Junior's team didn't pay off.

Odd Gunnar



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