Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 10:57:59 04/18/99
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On April 18, 1999 at 13:34:08, Mark Young wrote: >Ho-hum, this would be news if Seriwan won. Shredder or any program should be the >favorite in any blitz match. A plus results is so common in blitz games against >the strongest grandmaster its not worth your time to post such an ad. It is >meaningless. There's something on ICC that people think is Seirawan. I don't know why they think this. I have no opinion about. Whoever it is, he/she is *extremely* strong. Whoever it is, he/she has absolutely no interest in making their identity public, this is very clear and very obvious. I've also done some live games with Seirawan. I know it was Seirawan because he was sitting across the table from me. The time control was 5 0, it was at the 1997 Aegon tournament, I was using a Pentium Pro 200, and I had the time control set to 3 0 so I'd get some operator time. Seirawan was simply brutal under these conditions, which you'd think would favor a computer, even on the old hardware with the time advantage. He sat across the table from me talking and quietly singing. I'd make a move for my program, he'd look at it, his brow would crease, he'd say, "oh", in a disappointed tone, and I'd fail low, in that order. He thought forever on some positions but never got into time pressure. I didn't keep track of the results of that match. My program won about half of the games, perhaps a little less, I don't remember, but at some point it was clearly losing almost every one of those games. There were about six games, all played right after he'd played a tournament game against a strong computer. This was the single hardest blitz match I've ever been involved in. Later that evening I got to operate under the same conditions against Larry Christiansen, and the outcome was very different. We played game after game after game, for hours. I was developing my typical tournament-cold, and as this went on and on and on I got sicker and sicker, and by the end I could barely speak. My program won the vast majority of these games. He's a fine player but the difference between Christiansen and Seirawan was dramatic. bruce
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