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Subject: Re: Regarding the Kramnik match: is CCC so deeply asleep??? :) :)

Author: Rafael Andrist

Date: 11:36:43 04/19/01

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On April 19, 2001 at 11:48:08, Christophe Theron wrote:

>Hi CCC!
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>
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>Life is so fun!
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[...]
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>Guys, we are faced with a PROBLEM: the player will have access to the program 3
>months before the match.
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>So let's find a SOLUTION!
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>I won't go into Deep Details here, but let me tell you that I can easily write a
>program that nobody could ever prepare against, especially given the (known)
>conditions of the match.
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>You do not have to be a chess programmer to know how to do that.
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>OK, let's see if somebody can come up with a decent solution to this problem.
>Please, show me that you are not all deeply asleep and try to find creative
>solution(s). There are actually many ways to solve the problem.
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[...]
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>    Christophe

These rule and also the other conditions of the tournament are idiotic and make
this event unattractive.

The rule should be modified by the following:
The author have to give the prog three months before to Kramnik. But he can
modify the program (and the opening book) until the match.

It's clear that it would be unfair for Kramnik, not to have any idea about the
opponent, but now it's unfair for the programmer, because Kramnik can study the
opening book and the weaknesses of the programs, especially in the endgame.

Unfortunately, this tournament won't have any significance.

Rafael B. Andrist



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