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Subject: Re: Fritz is a GM

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 09:02:10 07/13/98

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On July 13, 1998 at 10:46:53, Shaun Graham wrote:

>On July 13, 1998 a
>>
>>Fritz is a GM at 5 min chess, and 30 min chess but not at 40 moves in 2 hours.
>>Even if computers today were 2 to 3 times faster I don't think Fritz 5 would be
>>a GM at slow chess.
>>
>>If you were to play Fritz 5 as a human, it would work for a few games, but it
>>would not take the stronger players long to find your weakness and knock Fritz 5
>>back to earth.
>
>
>If you admit as you say "it would work for a few games" that's all that's
>required, because in a swiss system, I would not be playing that person again so
>i just need to win once.  I doubt that you can recieve any title based upon
>match play.  So what i was saying, is that going into a swiss system
>tourney(excluding computer bias of the opponents, that is they would play normal
>chess),  Fritz would get the norm, because there would be no learning of these
>weekneses.  Most GM's get there norms at swiss systems were they don't really
>get to prepare for their opponents to any great extent(in the past the portable
>super databases we have now weren't even available).  This is in great contrast
>to the tournaments we always here about such as Linares, Wijk aan zee, etc.,
>that are Round robin invitationals were you know who will be there, and who you
>will play beforehand and thus are able to prepare.
>

Please play in a few big tournaments first.  Once it became known that the
program is playing, *everyone* will know from that point forward, and things
will go sour.  It's happened to every computer that has ever participated in
many events.  They start out with a bang, but once they became "known" and the
players start exchanging info, the result is inevitable...

>>
>>I know Michael, and you are correct. He is stronger then some GM's.



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