Author: Derrick Williams
Date: 23:55:55 02/25/00
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On February 26, 2000 at 02:27:33, blass uri wrote: >On February 25, 2000 at 21:04:06, Jorge Pichard wrote: > >>There is no questions that any of these programs (Deep Junior 6.0 Fritz 6.0 >>Shredder 4.0 Nimzo 2000 and Rebel 10) can easily beat Xie Jun, which is only >>rated 2545 by FIDE; > Plus her style is just perfect to pit her against any of >>these computer Chess Programs. I don't believe that she will change her style in >>just two weeks and adjust to the Anticomputer Style, and even if she does >>decides to play positionally instead of tactically, DJ has sufficient positional >>knowledge to beat even a Great GM like Adams, which is among the 10 best in the >>world. > >I think that you forget that the game was one hour per game and that adams >probably did not buy deep Junior and played many games against it before the >match because he had to worry also about other games. > >I read that adams played in the regular way that he plays against humans and it >is a mistake. > >Deep Junior can be a weak player but you need to play the right opening to >discover it. > > Just remember that Anand develops his Anticomputer style over the las 10 >>years and Rebel managed to draw against him in tournament regulation time two >>years ago. > >1)Anand did not play anti-computer style in the games against Rebel. >2)If the target is not to win but only to get a draw then it is clearly easier. >Remember that 2176 player got a draw against Fritz6 by trading the pieces for an >endgame. > >2300 player also could draw against shredder by trading the pieces. > >Deep Junior is better than fritz6 but the difference between Xie Jun and 2176 is >clearly bigger. > >I believe that if Xie Jun is going to play for a draw in every game and to play >for a win only if she discovers that the computer blundered then she has good >chances for 3:3 or even 3.5:2.5 > >Uri So then with your way of thinking , every loss by a computer can be explained as either the GM does not know how to play anti-computer chess, or he Did not play enough games against the machine, I guess I could say the same thing about me and kasparov, if I play him enough games I could learn to beat him, or If I learn the weakness in his opening play , i could destroy him. The problem is the grandmasters have been looking for these weakness for years, without sucess. The problem is with the "if" word, if my grandma had wings she could fly.
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