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Subject: Re: Bob, do You finally accept, that PCs are playing at GM level?

Author: Chris Carson

Date: 06:23:23 06/23/99

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On June 23, 1999 at 08:44:44, Torstein Hall wrote:

>On June 22, 1999 at 03:05:32, blass uri wrote:
>
>><snipped>
>>>>I think that computers help humans to do tactical blunders.
>>>>I think that sokolov was surprised by good moves of Fritz in the opening.
>>>>
>>>>I think that Fritz had advantage and a good chance to win even without the
>>>>blunder of sokolov.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>Then I don't understand...  as when DB ripped Kasparov in game 6, Kasparov
>>>played poorly and the computer was lucky.  Here the GM was OK and Fritz played
>>>great?  While still in book?  The two circumstances seem similar. In _both_
>>>games the human blundered in the opening and lost quickly...
>>
>>In the game of kasparov the human blundered in a known position from theory.
>>In  this case I understand that Fritz played a novelty Bh6.
>>
>>In the game of kasparov computers evaluate the position after Nxe6 of deeper
>>blue as better for black when in this case I found that the evaluation of
>>computers show advantage for white.
>>
>>I think that the kind of position that Fritz came out of the opening is better
>>for computers and probably Fritz could practically win another GM from the
>>position after Bh6
>>
>>I think that the practical mistake of the sokolov was that it chose a bad
>>opening.
>>Instead of playing Nxe4 going to open spanish it was better to play for close
>>positions with Be7.
>>
>>Uri
>
>According to GM Einar Gausel, its a popular move against computers as its
>usually  leads to endgame positions quite early, after a lot of excahnges in the
>opening.
>
>Torstein Hall

Good advice.

Best Regards,
Chris Carson



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