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Subject: Re: Illescas on Deep Junior

Author: Howard Exner

Date: 21:42:07 02/13/00

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On February 14, 2000 at 00:29:18, Howard Exner wrote:

>http://www.kasparovchess.com/serve/templates/folders/show.asp?p_docID=2380&p_docLang=EN
>
>The above from the Kasparov site, from a computer savy GM.
>Junior's play here is rock solid.
>
>Interesting also from this site is an article from another computer smart GM,
>Koshavilli, who won Aegon '97, but who recently lost a 40/2 game to Fritz.
>
>Despite the many weaknesses of computers, it does not appear such an easy task
>to dictate the play in such a way as to take the machine out of its game. It can
>happen and when it does the machine can look out classed, yet
>computers excel at the very thing that chess authors have said is 90% of the
>game, tactics.

I should clarify the tactics quote. It is "chess is 99% tactics" - Teichmann

And this by Reuben Fine ...

"Thirty years ago (this was written in 1942), Teichmann said that chess is 99%
tactics. And despite the enormous strides of chess theory since then, his
percentage can only be reduced a few points"



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