Author: Chessfun
Date: 15:54:11 02/03/00
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On February 03, 2000 at 18:43:00, Ed Schröder wrote: >On February 03, 2000 at 17:19:22, John Warfield wrote: > >> >> I have heard several people claim that karpov would be the best against >>computers. I think this is untrue, as karpov barely beat deep thought in 1986, >>actually the positional was drawn and deepthought blundered. Another game is the >>draw karpov got against a mere micro program schredder. In 1996 Karpov conducted >>a simul exhibition at the aegon tournament where fritz4 managed to draw him. >>Actually kasparov has a much better record. > >You are absolutely right about Karpov who can't play computers. A few >years ago a kind of Rebel Decade 2.0 version played two 30/all games >against Karpov on a poor Pentium-200. Two draws. And in the last game >Karpov was rescued by the organizers offering him a draw in a bad >position while having very little time on his clock too. The 2 games >are somewhere on my pages for those who are interested. > >Ed While you both may be right that Karpov don't excel against computers, saying he *sucks* is a bit strong. Thanks.
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