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Subject: Re: Vishy Anand about Deep Fritz vs. Kramnik

Author: Harald Faber

Date: 01:55:08 08/13/01

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On August 12, 2001 at 16:46:50, Andreas Schwartmann wrote:

>I've just had the chance to talk a bit to Vishy Anand, after a match he played
>vs. Peter Leko for german television, here in Cologne. Of course I've asked him
>about the coming match in Barain, and he just laughed and said that the match
>"is a joke." He would have imagined some kind of restrictions in terms of
>cutting or limiting the opening book or things like that, but the fact that
>Kramnik already has the engine 2 months in advance (he already has it!) leads to
>the conclusion, "that their (he referred to Chessbase) hands are firmly tied.
>Kramik can train against the program for 2 months now, day for day."


Will the engine be verified before the match starts in Bahrain? How? What will
happen if the engine is not the same? Programs like WinDiff or so can find it
out.


>Well ... I still hope the best for my favourite engine, but Vishy's comments
>make me wonder.
>
>Andreas


Don't worry, Vishy is certainly right, but where is the problem, Kramnik does
not play your favourite engine. ;-)))




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