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Date: 10:52:39 A.M., October 12, 2002 Name: alex Email address: Comments: I stumbled upon that hilarious piece of chess writing as well. I guess the writer doesn't know what tactics and strategy in chess mean. Like most readers probably. Looking at the match I am rather surprised how easily Kramnik beats the machine. He always realises a soon queen exchange and small positional advantages in the middle game which result in favourable end games. It is almost like he has found the recipe how to beat computers no matter how high their ELO. What do you think? BTW if you're interested I started a new blog called close your eyes. The name is somehow inspired by yours... |
Date: 04:08:51 A.M., October 13, 2002 Name: Phil Email address: phil-at-masstransfer-dot-net Comments: I agree that -- unless the piece was mangled by an editor -- the reporter was probably just lazy and uninformed. I wish they'd put a literate reporter on the assignment -- there are plenty of IMs and GMs who could probably use the work ;-) Kramnik does make it look easy, but I think it's a little like a man who walks through a minefield: there are so many potential disasters that he's able to nip in the bud with his exceptionally good anti-computer technique. I think, too, that his style is perfect for playing computers -- it's a very "negative" style, not unlike Karpov but a bit more straightforward, and very good at taking away his opponent's opportunities to complicate the position. Your new site looks nice! I wanted to leave a comment but it looks like they want you to register first -- is that correct? Anyway, I think you should get the Low & Dirty Three album: it's cheaper than the others and it's very, very good. |
Date: 7:16:18 P.M., October 13, 2002 Name: alex Email address: alex63@bigfoot.com Comments: Yes you have to register on my site to leave comments but you just have to choose a name, a password and an email, if you want you can also put your site name. Why don't you just take the email you use at ILM? In any case if you don't check the email public box, your email stays private. |
Date: 9:38:06 P.M., October 13, 2002 Name: alex Email address: alex63@bigfoot.com Comments: Sorry about leaving the email field unfilled again. I am delighted that you like the new site. When thinking about this registering thing I suddenly asked myself the question if you ever participated in ILM after the change to ilxor. I don't remember it but that doesn't mean anything as my memory is a sieve but can it be that you do not register anywhere by principle? If the answer was yes I'd like to know the reasons. |
Date: 12:29:15 A.M., October 14, 2002 Name: Phil Email address: phil-at-masstransfer-dot-net Comments: (I've gotta fix that script, so that it doesn't do that if you leave the email field blank...bad programming on my part, which stands to reason since I don't really know Perl very well at all.) can it be that you do not register anywhere by principle? By principle? No, I do it from time to time, and I did register at the new ilxor address -- I just don't participate much at ILM/ILE, since I don't generally find that it's good for my mood. Registration is just a pain in the butt -- it means you've got yet another username and password to keep track of, and if you're like me then you use a different one for each site, since if anyone's site gets hacked and you use the same L/P for everything, you can wind up in deep trouble. Also, sites like the New York Times use it to track your personal information and viewing habits, which I don't like, nor do I like having to enter a password every time I want to read a NYT story. But, I'll definitely register for your site! |
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