Author: Sune Larsson
Date: 05:21:29 11/21/99
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On November 21, 1999 at 04:56:00, Anatoli wrote: >On November 20, 1999 at 15:11:45, Chessfun wrote: > >>Not of direct computer regard however an interesting question. >>Who of all the regular posters has the highest rating. >>Thanks. > >I had 2460 Russian rating in 1992. Now I live in Melbourne and don't play in the >local tournaments because chess are dead here. People who organise local >tournaments and rule chess did there best to kill chess. But it is another >question. >I was twice correspondence champion of my country Ukraine and played at the >master and grandmaster level for years. I used to analises games with many >grandmasters but at that time nobody used computors os course. >Now I have Fritz 5.32, Hiarcs 7.32, Junior 5 and Nimzo 99. I didn't buy Rebel >because I don't like to use DOS programes. I spent months analising differant >positions with all these engines. I don't care about thier performance in the >computer tournaments and thier ratings. I just wanted to find the most reliable >engine which would be my partner and adviser at the master level. The only >engine I can trust at about 50-60% is Fritz 5.32. I can't understand all that >mess around Hiarcs 7.32 when it was release 6 months ago. You can only enjoy it >when you organise an engine tournament and you would find Hiarcs on the top of >the table. But it's "understanding" of positions is very low. Sorry, But Nimzo >and Junior are absolutely unsuitable for deep analises. I hope that the nest >versions would be better. >There were many conversations here if the top engines play at the grandmaster >level. My answer is NOT. They can beat 2600+ IG in a game with 1 or 2 hour time >control. But if a IG has much more time on thinking, any engine doesn't have any >chances. I will give you my own example. Now I play in e-mail tournaments and >have 2515 rating. ALL MY PARTNERS use top engines without any understanding >what's going on the board. They simply receive my moves, then give it to Fritz >or Hiarcs and then sent me the answer in no time. I can immedeatelly find out >what sort of engine they use.I call such sort of players as postmen. >Unfortunately I play against 99% postmen. Till now I finished 20 games and I won >14 and 6 draws. Not too bad result against Fritz and Hiarcs, what do you think ? >17 out of 20. If you play by e-mail, don't trust to your engines. I have MANY >examples when my partners sent me computor's moves and I sent them back my >answers which Fritz or Junior didn't see at all.Use your Fritz or Rebel just to >check your blunders but NEVER trust them. >So, please be realistic. The level of all top engines in correspondence games is >around 2400. >Do you believe me ?! >My best wishes >Anatoli Many thanks for this very interesting post Anatoli! Think I join you in your opinions! Myself I had ranking about 2280 at age 19. Stopped playing serious tournaments in my early 20th. Now for the last 20 years I,ve had chess merely as hobby. Reading magazines, looking at games, playing just for fun. Think I understand alot more now about chess but naturally very much out of practice. When chess programs started to get better I was interested. So this year I have played much with Fritz 5.32, Hiarcs 7.32, ChessMaster 6000 and CS TAL. Enjoy playing rapidchess vs these programs. Have just finished building a 925 MB opening book out of Powerbooks-99. Sorry to hear about your opinion about the chess culture in Australia. But they don't have the Russian/Ukranian tradition in chess-schools, training, organizing tournaments etc. Wish you the best of luck downunder! Regards Sune
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