Author: Djordje Vidanovic
Date: 06:58:54 02/04/00
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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 Hello, I believe that you people are very wrong about Karpov's ability to play chess --and chess is what we are trying to discuss, be it a match against a computer program or a human. Karpov is obviously not computer chess savvy, but give that guy a couple of months and he'd be destroying one chess progam after another at tournament levels. I still marvel at people not realising how much chess knowledge a real World Champion at Chess such as Karpov (not Khalifman:)) has at his fingertips and how much bellow him (unfortunately) computer programs still are at tournament levels. This said, I do believe that a good program (such as Rebel, or Shredder or Fritz or Tiger, etc.) is quite capable of defeating a run-of-the-mill GM at blitz or rapid chess in a match, and even putting up one hell of resistence at tournament levels. However, super-super GMs like Karpov, Kasparov, Anand, Kramnik or Morozevich are still a cut above the best of software, say a good 100 ELO pts, or more, above. *** Djordje
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