Author: blass uri
Date: 10:38:42 08/16/99
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On August 16, 1999 at 13:00:37, Ratko V Tomic wrote: >>I read that Chinook won a match of 70 games some years ago 2:1 and 67 draws. >> > >The history of Chinook is at http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/~chinook/. >I didn't see anything about 2:1 (=67), maybe that was against a >weaker player. In 1992 match, Tinsley won 4:2 (with 33 draws). >In 1994 they played again, but Tinsley fell ill after 6 draws, >withdrew from the match and died few months later from cancer. I think the match that chinook won 2:1(=67) was after the match in 1994. > >>It is surprising to hear that the top human player is at age 65. >>I think that something like this never happen in chess and the >best player is always younger than 65. > >Lasker played quite well in later years. But it is rare, >at least for the world champion (the great players still >remain quite strong). Since the raw calculation speed >decreases with age, the Tinsley and Lasker examples show >that there is more to the top level play in chess & checkers >than a raw computation of tactics. (Of course, anyone playing >chess seriously knew that anyway.) I think that Lasker was not the world champion at age 65 so it is not similiar to Tinsley's case. Uri
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