On Mar 7, 4:12 pm, Larry Tapper wrote:
On Mar 7, 3:42 pm, help bot wrote:

But I do believe there are plenty of stronger
GMs around who could give Rybka a tougher
match with these odds. Joel Benjamin, for
instance, got the upperhand (to say the least)
in the openings, game after game, but he
crumbled in the middlegame. I have yet to
see GM Dzindzi make much of his odds in
the opening, and half the time his extra pawn
gets doubled or becomes useless, due to his
own clumsy play or to wild King assaults in
which the pawn-count is rendered moot.

Bear in mind that Dzindzi is 63 years old.

Which is a perfect example of what I said:
there are plenty of stronger GMs around, if
for no other reason than this: GM Dzindzi is
well past his peak.

The things to consider are twofold:

1) Rybka is the strongest program in the
world.

2) It is at its all-time peak, right now!


Even now I would bet serious money that he would mop the floor with
you giving you 5-1 blitz odds.


A shallow blitz player, eh? Reminds me
of Skip Repa-- although he was even
shallower, being a bullet-chess player.


In his prime he used to be able to do
that with IMs, spotting them several cognacs to boot. Ask anyone who
saw him play in NYC in the 80s.


You seem to be under the impression that
I am a newbie, unfamiliar with RD; in fact, I
still recall his picture appearing on covers of
Chess Lies magazine, after winning many
events. Those were regular chess tourneys,
not just blitz!


Rybka is shown as having a rating of "3100"
on the site linked to from its home page; to
me, this clearly indicates that we humans
need to send our "007 James Bond" types
to defend the honor of humankind, not just
the GM Joel Benjamins or GM Roman
Dzindzichashvilis; I want Gata... Vishy...
Gary... Bobby (oops, too late!). These
old-timer American players are making the
Siliconoids look good. Can you remember
back when Gary Kasparov made DT look
like a fish? I can.


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