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Subject: Re: Bilbao - Father

Author: Sune Larsson

Date: 15:55:20 11/25/05

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On November 25, 2005 at 17:31:08, Drexel,Michael wrote:

>On November 25, 2005 at 13:41:23, Sune Larsson wrote:
>
>>On November 24, 2005 at 15:16:21, Drexel,Michael wrote:
>>
>>>On November 24, 2005 at 13:23:58, Sune Larsson wrote:
>>>
>>>>On November 24, 2005 at 11:06:11, Drexel,Michael wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>On November 23, 2005 at 15:28:15, Sune Larsson wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>On November 23, 2005 at 15:20:11, Ovidio Santistevan wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Looking at the results, as of today, the programs are clerly ahead in this
>>>>>>>tourn.:
>>>>>>>People    2.5
>>>>>>>Programs  6.5
>>>>>>>Now, if these strong GMs had spent some time analyzing Father's games against
>>>>>>>programs, the results might have been different: they could have learned how to
>>>>>>>play against machines...
>>>>>>>Just a thought.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> You mean like Ponomariov in today's round? Pono was clearly uninterested in
>>>>>>playing chess...
>>>>>>
>>>>>>/S
>>>>>
>>>>>Are you serious?
>>>>>Ponomariov had the black pieces and no chance to play for a win early in this
>>>>>game. You can hardly expect him to open the position for the white bishop pair.
>>>>>The Junior programmer thought white is better and played on.
>>>>>
>>>>>Michael
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Of course I'm serious. Why do you think Ruslan chose this variation?
>>>>
>>>> /S
>>>
>>>Maybe because he was sucessful with 3...Bb4 in the past?
>>>
>>>Maybe because programs do not play the Winawer positions very well?
>>>
>>>Michael
>>
>>
>> So you know -  then why ask these questions of the ignorant?
>> If you are still in doubt - then ask Ruslan himself - he will answer...
>
>You might have asked yourself those ignorant questions before stating Ponomariov
>was clearly uninterested in playing chess.
>He played a 153 moves game. As soon as Junior played f4 he started to regroup
>his pieces and went for the g5 break. Why did he not continue to shuffle pieces
>for another 50 moves?
>
>During his third game, he was clearly uninterested in playing chess.
>In the game against Hydra he played some different kind of game.
>I´m not sure what it was. Anti-Chess with zero chances of sucess maybe?
>
>Michael


 This game was so easy for Ruslan. He could think about anything he wanted
 during this session. Even while making this little regrouping of pieces and
 looking for g5... I assure you - this game was nothing to him - no real
 interest needed...

 /S

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