Author: Shaun Graham
Date: 02:28:26 07/13/98
Concerning the Kotronias Fritz match: Well a single match doesn't prove or support anything. If kasparov or Anand played most any GM alive, a 3 game match the score would be 3-1 or even 3 0!! Fischer beat larsen 6 0 does that mean Larsen is not grandmaster strength? Further Grandmasters have an unfair advantage against computers in that in professional chess, GMs prepare for each other. Kotronias can prepare for fritz, but Fritz can't prepare for kotronias(except IF a special opening book has been prepared but still not the same) Further Kotronias WOULD BE EXPECTED TO BEAT some people with the GM title 3 0! At least Fritz had a point. Seeing that he had a point, and you attempt tosuggest that a 3 game match is evidence,would you claim that Fritz is I.M strength since it BEAT a grandmaster after all. If you accept that Fritz is I.M strength, then you should know that there are I.M.'s that are stronger than many grandmasters case in point "Igor Ivanov, Sokolin, Michael Brooks". Many I.M.s get the grandmaster title simply by playing in lots of tournaments in europe, if you are an I.M, and you play enough especially in lower category tourneys you will get the 3 GM norms. In the New york open there were several GMs in the under 2400 section, and even a couple rated under 2300!! So is Fritz a GM? Also GM's often beat computers by playing anti computer chess instead of regular chess, so if i showed up and was bieng secretly told moves by fritz, and no one knew to play ANTI COMPUTER chess against me i'd kill and have my norm! So yes Fritz is a grandmaster at regular chess(at least on a P400)but because it has weaknesses that it's opponent can know and play against, and fritz can not alter itself that results in losses. Fritz is a GM if it were in a human body!
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