Author: Ed Schröder
Date: 23:14:12 02/04/00
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On February 04, 2000 at 20:56:34, Dave Gomboc wrote: >On February 04, 2000 at 11:16:18, Ed Schröder wrote: > >>Say Rebel has to play a 6-game match on 40/2h and I have the freedom to >>choose the opponent: >> >>Hoffmann >>Seirawan >>Karpov >>Timman >> >>my order would be: >> >>Timman >>Karpov >>Hoffmann >>Seirawan >> >>IMO Rebel would have (a lot) better chances against Karpov than against >>Seirawan. >> >>Source of information: having played against them. >> >>ELO is not the connection here, the ability to play computers is. Some >>know how to, some don't. Yet.... >> >>Ed > >Uh-oh, are you sure you want to sound that much like Bob? ;-) That is because I entirely agree with Bob's vision on this case. Ed >I think that the generation that developed into strong players recently had some >benefit from reasonably strong machines on their way up. e.g. take Kamsky, or >Leko. They seem to grit their teeth and refuse to lose. Isn't that awfully >computer-like? :-) And the young English GMs... I don't think they know what >"positional chess" is! They are big, fat, walking tactics! Perhaps their >abilities have been honed by all of the ugly but strong moves that machines >sometimes play. > >Dave
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