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Subject: Re: FIDE World Championship: Deep Junior x Khalifman!

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 21:12:16 02/18/00

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On February 18, 2000 at 23:29:00, Aloisio Ponti Lopes wrote:

>Why bother about that KC Site tournament? If Deep Junior can beat Adams SO
>EASILY, why not try to win the FIDE title? (ok, I forgot that Peter Leko already
>had demoralized the title, but Khalifman is still the champ...).
>
>Let's take a look at the FIDE rating list:
>
>1)Kasparov, G   2851
>2)Fischer, RJ   2780
>3)Anand, V      2769
>4)Kramnik, V    2758
>5)Shirov, A     2751
>6)Morozevich, A 2748
>7)Leko, P       2725
>8)Kamsky,G      2717
>9)Adams, M      2715
>
>Ok, taking into account the match DB-Kasparov and considering the humiliating
>final position of Deep Junior-Adams, where in the list could be DB and DJ ?

You forgot something.  The WC is games that are 40/2 time control.  This match
was at a much faster pace -- greatly favoring computers.  I think Khalifman
would trounce any computer in a long match at 40/2.  He's not nearly as good as
these guys (something like 40-60th in the world IIRC) but he's well over 2600
ELO, which is nothing to shake a stick at.  If the WC was at stake, you can
believe he would buy a copy of Deep Junior and practice a hundred games against
it.

>-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>Programmers!
>If DB or DJ could write a book on chess, I would buy it!
On tactics, I would buy it.  On strategy I would not.

>Congratulations!




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