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Subject: Re: Karpov sucks against computers

Author: Chessfun

Date: 21:00:37 02/03/00

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On February 03, 2000 at 23:27:54, Ed Schröder wrote:

>On February 03, 2000 at 18:54:11, Chessfun wrote:
>
>>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.
>
>Ahem... where did I say that? Karpov is one of the great players all time.
>Only that he don't know how to play computers. That is to say yet...
>
>Ed


Apologies to you Ed, it is in the title of the post.
Thanks.









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