Author: Dave Gomboc
Date: 15:41:19 02/05/00
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On February 05, 2000 at 02:37:04, blass uri wrote: >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? ;-) >> >>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? :-) > >No >Strong players often know how to avoid losing. > > 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 > >I do not think that strong moves of computers are ugly > >Uri Neither do I, but ugly still seems to be the adjective that people use to describe them. Or "unnatural", "bizarre", "unintuitive", usually followed by "but strong" or some such. Dave
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