Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 07:35:37 08/26/99
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On August 26, 1999 at 07:32:06, Claudio A. Amorim wrote: >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. I have chatted with him a couple of times. I don't think he meant that the way it sounded. He believes (as I do) that computers are not up to the 40/2 challenge just yet. But I didn't get the impression that he thought he could beat them just by pushing wood around. Ask Kasparov. One moment of inattention and it can end... it requires a huge concentration effort to check and double- check each move you make to be sure you don't overlook any subtle tactical shot that the machine won't miss... But as he said, at blitz the computers are a _serious_ problem...
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