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Subject: Re: Fritz is a GM!!!

Author: blass uri

Date: 12:38:19 07/13/98

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On July 13, 1998 at 15:19:12, Shaun Graham wrote:

>
>>
>>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...
>>
>
>
>It doesn't matter if people find out, and start beating fritz!  The point would
>have been made, that when playing against the normal standard of grandmaster
>chess Fritz is comparable with those players.  That is the ultimate point and
>purpose.  We have computer chess so that we can see a high level of chess, and
>also so that we can learn how to play typical chess(good chess), not anti
>computer chess(bad chess).

I do not think anti computer chess is bad chess

Uri
> Now of course i'm not advocating that anyone should
>purpotrate a hoax.  What i'm suggesting is the likelyhood that Fritz is GM
>strength when it comes to what's important "typical chess".  When i described
>the method of secrecy to test it, i was not advocating anyone do it, i was just
>stating what would have to be done.  There is often a difference between what
>you have to do to qaulify for what you call ethics, and what you have to do to
>get an accurate scientific result.
>>>>
>>>>I know Michael, and you are correct. He is stronger then some GM's.



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