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Subject: Re: PREDICTION: GM's can draw 50% of games or more at 5 minutes vs comps if?

Author: Ricardo Gibert

Date: 01:36:53 09/14/99

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On September 13, 1999 at 23:24:29, Bruce Moreland wrote:

>On September 13, 1999 at 19:41:14, Ricardo Gibert wrote:
>
>>I've had similar experiences on ICC. I seem to be able to score more than my
>>fair share of draws against the computer programs playing there. If I try to win
>>I get "embarassed". But when I play to draw, the games I've been successful (5 3
>>blitz unrated) at have followed 1 of 2 patterns:
>>
>>1) One of the crafty clones has a penchant for unsound gambits (Englund gambit
>>with f7-f6). I play solidly with a caro pawn structure and exchange down to an
>>ending, which I draw.
>>2) I play an exchange sac, which computer programs do not cope with as well as
>>they should. They don't understand the importance of activating their rook. One
>>game I almost won, but I screwed up and allowed counterplay and had to force a
>>draw.
>>
>>I'm 2411 on ICC. My best score in one day was 2 draws out of 4 games if I
>>remember correctly. I feel pretty sure these programs are easier to draw than
>>GMs.
>
>Not to be Mr. Hormone Dude or anything, but I'd be happy to take you up on this
>as well.  If you want to play a match of perhaps 10 games of 5 0, let's set up a
>time.  If you want to play with increment, I'm less confident of the result, but
>I'll do that as well.
>
>bruce

It's definitely your hormones doing the talking. I made a GENERAL statement
about computer programs in GENERAL. At no point did I single out your program. I
made no claim concerning about state of the art programs on really fast
hardware. I've coroborated what I've said in another post and I don't have to do
any more than that. It's funny that you should take a general statement and
react to it like it was an attack on the quality of your own program. Insecure
maybe?

• Re: PREDICTION: GM's can draw 50% of games or more at 5 minutes vs comps if? Robert Hyatt 06:54:56 09/14/99
  • Re: PREDICTION: GM's can draw 50% of games or more at 5 minutes vs comps if? Bruce Moreland 08:53:36 09/14/99
  • Re: PREDICTION: GM's can draw 50% of games or more at 5 minutes vs comps if? Ralf Elvsén 08:41:02 09/14/99
    • Re: PREDICTION: GM's can draw 50% of games or more at 5 minutes vs comps if? Robert Hyatt 12:38:10 09/14/99
      • Re: PREDICTION: GM's can draw 50% of games or more at 5 minutes vs comps if? KarinsDad 13:05:47 09/14/99
        • Re: PREDICTION: GM's can draw 50% of games or more at 5 minutes vs comps if? Robert Hyatt 19:06:21 09/14/99
        • Re: PREDICTION: GM's can draw 50% of games or more at 5 minutes vs comps if? Ricardo Gibert 15:35:26 09/14/99
    • Re: PREDICTION: GM's can draw 50% of games or more at 5 minutes vs comps if? Peter Kasinski 10:24:00 09/14/99
• Re: PREDICTION: GM's can draw 50% of games or more at 5 minutes vs comps if? Bruce Moreland 01:57:34 09/14/99
  • Re: PREDICTION: GM's can draw 50% of games or more at 5 minutes vs comps if? Ricardo Gibert 02:15:51 09/14/99
    • Re: PREDICTION: GM's can draw 50% of games or more at 5 minutes vs comps if? Robert Hyatt 06:55:43 09/14/99

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