Author: Graham Laight
Date: 01:42:34 10/05/02
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On October 05, 2002 at 04:29:45, Uri Blass wrote: >On October 05, 2002 at 03:48:38, Graham Laight wrote: > >>If Kramnik can obtain a draw this easily with black, then the Fritz team need to >>do something. > >No > >A draw with white against kramnik is an excellent result for Fritz. They're competing with 1997 DB, not the 1980 Fidelity Travelmaster! Junior has already obtained draws/wins against top players at Dortmund - that PCs can do this against top players is already old news. Obtaining a draw against an opponent who's not even TRYING to win is hardly an "excellent result". >>But what can they do? >> >>I assume they'll be able to change the first few moves of the opening to avoid >>an exact repetition of yesterday's game - but I think that that's the limit. >> >>I assume that they're not allowed to alter the evaluation in any way. >> >>It's difficult to see how Fritz can avoid losing now, unfortunately. >> >>-g > >Why unfortunately? > >Uri * According to the Chessbase report (currently the top story at www.chessbase.com) the Fritz team were disappointed. * Yesterday's game almost eliminates the possibility that Fritz can win (DB obtained all of its wins against GK with white, and I think that Fritz will have to do the same) * The match is going 100% to Kramnik's game plan * Kramnik has, IN THE VERY FIRST GAME, exposed a fundamntal flaw in Fritz which cannot now be corrected. They cannot even do any sort of meaningful workaround - they're sunk. * All the fun of the possibility of Fritz winning a game in the match has already gone In fact, on reflection, the word "unfortunately" was an understatement. -g
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