Author: Ulrich Tuerke
Date: 23:32:26 04/19/99
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On April 18, 1999 at 13:57:59, Bruce Moreland wrote: > >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. Yes, I remember very well because I kiebitzed parts of the match. It was a very impressive performance by Seirawan. He's certainly a terrible opponent for any computer program. I wonder if he could even have done better than Kasparov against Deep Blue. Uli > ... >bruce
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