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Subject: ...only faster...

Author: Harald Faber

Date: 01:02:34 08/13/01

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On August 12, 2001 at 18:07:48, Andreas Schwartmann wrote:

>On August 12, 2001 at 17:53:52, Martin Giepmans wrote:
>
>>Just a wild idea:
>>Suppose that somewhere in the Fritz-program is this line (in pseudocode):
>>"If date >= first_day_of_match then use eval_2 else use eval_1"
>>Then Kramnik doesn't really have the engine, does he?
>
>
>I asked Vishy if it makes a difference, that DF will use 8 CPUs in the match and
>not a single CPU machine, as Kramnik now obviously uses for his training. He
>laughed: "He will just make the same dumb moves, only faster."


Hehe...:-)
Obviously he knows (Deep)Fritz very well. He wouldn't say this about Rebel
Century, the Tigers and Chessmaster which are more capable programs to play for
initiative, attack and open positions than Fritz is.


>I wonder how Anand will feel, when he will face Deep Fritz 9 on a 20-CPU Machine
>in 2003 ... ;-)
>
>Andreas


I don't think that Anand will change his mind if the computer opponent still is
a Fritz version. :-)
The programs I mentioned above would give humans a harder life. Maybe count
Junior 7 to them too, but I am not sure at the moment.





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