Author: J. Wesley Cleveland
Date: 09:45:46 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.). I would interpret that as meaning either he would win easily or he would make a tactical mistake and get wiped out, and neither possibility was interesting for him.
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