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Subject: The "only" bad thing with Kramnik vs. Fritz!

Author: Gregor Overney

Date: 17:59:39 10/08/02


Well, it seems that Kramnik controls this PC program and, should he continue to
perform at his current level, Kramnik will most certainly win.

The "only" disturbing thing is that now some folks will indeed proclaim that the
human brain outperforms any computer system the human brain is capable of
building. The answers is no. Of course not! (See the game of 1997 as an
example.)

Although some journalists try to manipulate the opinion of the general public
that Deep Blue and the program Fritz running on a multiprocessor PC are indeed
comparable in strength, for us it is very obvious that this cannot be the case.
It is easier to find flaws in certain evaluation functions than to outthink
brute force searches with decent algorithms (such as implemented in Deep Blue).

In any case, these games proof that PC programs are not yet winning against top
players at standard time settings.

Gregor



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