From: Mark Schreiber hotmail com> Date: 16 mar 2007 Subject: Bonanza vs Ryu-O Champion Talking about handicap systems to level the playing field. If Bonanza is maybe a 6 dan why is it playing a 9 dan? 9 dan Ryu-O Champion Watanabe said, "I don't think I'll lose". Then he said, "A loss can never be permitted". Does anyone have any doubt what will be the result? Bonanza will be slaughter. Can we learn anything from this? I like to see more computer vs man matches. But make them balanced. Shouldn't Bonanza be playing a 6 or maybe 7 dan? Mark Larry Kaufman wrote: > By a curious twist of fate, just as computer shogi programs are reaching > the level where they can compete with pros without a handicap (as > planned for Bonanza shortly), in chess the opposite has just occurred. A > match is now taking place in which computer chess program "Rybka" is > giving a pawn handicap to a renowned grandmaster (Jaan Ehlvest) in an > eight game match, and the computer is leading 3-0! > You can either take this as evidence of the superiority of shogi over > chess, or as a forecast of things to come in shogi. I think it's not so > many years away that a shogi program will spot the Meijin a lance and > defeat him. Few could have imagined this would happen in chess, but it > has, and shogi will be next. > > Larry Kaufman, chess International Master and Shogi amateur 5 Dan. --^---------------------------------------------------------------- This email was sent to: shogi-l shogi net EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a2i6Ys.aB5TiY.c2hvZ2kt Or send an email to: shogi-unsubscribe topica com For Topica's complete suite of email marketing solutions visit: http://www.topica.com/?p=TEXFOOTER --^----------------------------------------------------------------