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Subject: Re: Grandmaster AKopian played Crafty on Icc

Author: Claudio A. Amorim

Date: 04:32:06 08/26/99

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On August 26, 1999 at 02:21:39, odell hall wrote:

>Hi
>
>  If anyone is interested in how crafty would do against Grandmaster Atopkian do
>a Search Crafty Vagr on icc.  After these Games were played I asked Akopian What
>happened surprised that he lost. He said he was experimenting with some opening.
>However he admitted that he could not beat crafty and claimed this fact as the
>reason he played it so few games. Ofcourse these were all blitz games. Akopian
>said that playing the computers at 40/2 would not be interesting for him because
>they would be no challenge.

I think Akopian is plain wrong on this matter. Playing the best programs at 40/2
is already a challenge even to the very best human players in the world, and
Akopian is hardly in that league (Kasparov, Anand, Kramminik, etc., etc.). FIDE
Championship, these days, is a display of physical will and blitz wizardy. It
has little to do with top level chess.
I'd love to see a tournament involving the greatest human and the better
computers, round robin, $500.000 to 1st place. Matters should be more clear,
them.

Regards,

Cláudio.



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