Author: Bert Seifriz
Date: 22:54:23 03/27/99
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On March 28, 1999 at 00:00:56, Peter Kappler wrote: >On March 27, 1999 at 23:47:01, Bert Seifriz wrote: > >>On March 27, 1999 at 16:40:35, odell hall wrote: >> SNIP >There are a few important differences. > >First, Kasparov has never lost a game (publically, anyway!) to a commercial >program at 40/2 time controls. He has lost some exhibition games, but only at >faster time controls (G/30 or faster). Well, this is not true. 2-3 years ago Kasparav played against Genius 4 or 5 highly officially with other Grandmasters in a tournament in London and was very angry when he lost. Maybe it was a rapid tournament though. Our friend Ossi Weiner can send you a picture, because he was the operator! (It is Sunday and I have no time to look for all the old files.) > >The Aegon tournaments have seen some GMs lose to commercial programs, but even >those games were not 40/2. (Sorry - can't remember the time control...) If you cannot remember, how do you know that they were not 40/2??? In fact they were, and a lot of Grandmasters lost against simple software on slow machines at that time. As far as I know it was GM Christiansen (USA) who lost against M-CHESS (USA) at least 5 years ago, and that was the first full tournament game a GM had ever lost!! > >Yermolinsky is not just an "average" GM. As recently as 1 or 2 years ago, he >was on the FIDE top 20 rating list. What abou Rebel-Yussupov. Is Yussupov a weak player? > >Finally, this is a six-game match, and not just a single encounter. This is possibly the only difference. But when Hiarcs wins congratulations to Mark Uniacke and Intel - but a sensation it would be not! Nice Sunday, Bert
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