Author: Georg Langrath
Date: 10:15:42 10/16/02
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I am sure that Kramnik agreed having these spoken comments by Fritz. Georg On October 16, 2002 at 11:01:19, Matthias Gemuh wrote: > >On their homepage one reads: > > > >Did Deep Fritz use Shakespeare to heckle the World Champion? >It is an interesting theory: the Fritz team installed the latest chatter files >during the Man vs Machine event in Bahrain, causing the machine to talk to the >world champion in authentic Shakespearean verse during the game. The historical >chatter drove Kramnik to distraction and prompted his ill-fated Morphy-esque >knight sacrifice. That, in any case, ist how Schakespearean scholar and chess >addict Michael Fischer tells it in his special report. > > >Kramnik versus Deep Fritz, match game 6 >While the reports have not been confirmed, there has been some talk of the Fritz >team having employed a clever diversionary tactic in Game Six to unsettle the >World Champion, Vladimir Kramnik. Before the game, programmer Frans Morsch and >the notorious – some might say nefarious – Fred Friedel apparently tinkered with >the Deep Fritz program, installing the Shakespearean Chatter Files slated to >appear with a future release of Fritz. Morsch thought it would give the computer >better odds. Fred thought it would be funny to see Kramnik turn red and talk to >himself. > >The conspirators rigged up several speakers around Kramnik’s chair and set them >at volumes low enough that only Kramnik might hear the computer’s chatter. That >the computer was talking to him doubtless distracted Kramnik; that Fritz was >speaking entirely in Shakespearean verse surely drove Kramnik mad, prompting the >questionable, Morphy-esque Knight sacrifice at f7. > >Our reports go on to say that a Bahraini match official managed to extract a >full transcript from the Deep Fritz computer after the game. This transcript he >then e-mailed to the chatter-file designer, S. Michael Fisher, in the USA. In a >fit of good conscience, this same Mr. Fisher (no relation of Bobby Fischer) then >decided to make public the entire sordid affair. > >What follows is a copy of that transcript. > >Kramnik, Vladimir - Deep Fritz >Brains in Bahrain Match, Game Six 15.10.2002 > >Fritz: “Now is it time to arm: come, shall we about it?” > >The World Champion blinks at this and looks about him. Convinced he is hearing >things, he plays the first move. > >1.d4 Nf6 > >Fritz: “The game’s afoot.” > >Kramnik looks under the table. Not finding anyone there, he stares a while at >Mathias Feist, the technician across the table, then continues with the game. > >2.c4 e6 > >Fritz: “In our last conflict four of his five wits went halting off, and now is >the whole man governed with one: so that if he have wit enough to keep himself >warm, let him bear it for a difference between himself and his horse; for it is >all the wealth that he hath left, to be known a reasonable creature.” > >At this, Kramnik realizes what’s going on, but the memory of his humiliating >blunder in Game Five must be preventing him from making the infraction known to >the arbiter, Enrique Irazoqui. Fritz technician Mathias Feist is frowning >uncomfortably. Kramnik frowns too, but in anger. He proceeds to pound out the >next few moves. > >3.Nf3 b6 4.g3 Ba6 5.b3 Bb4+ 6.Bd2 Be7 > >Fritz: “Better do so than tarry and be hang'd.” > >7.Bg2 c6 8.Bc3 d5 9.Ne5 > >Fritz: “What sneaking fellow comes yonder?” > > > >9…Nfd7 10.Nxd7 > >Fritz: >“Stain to thy countrymen, thou hear'st thy doom! >Be packing, therefore, thou that wast a knight: >Henceforth we banish thee, on pain of death.” > >10…Nxd7 > >Kramnik itches his ear and gives his bodyguard a sidelong look. > >11.Nd2 0–0 12.0–0 Rc8 13.a4 > >Fritz: >“Why I will fight with him upon this theme >Until my eyelids will no longer wag.” > >Fritz had apparently expected 13.e4. After this the position becomes equal. > >13...Bf6 > >Fritz: >“Is this the scourge of France? >Is this the Kramnik, so much fear'd abroad >That with his name the mothers still their babes? >I see report is fabulous and false: >I thought I should have seen some Hercules, >A second Hector, for his grim aspect, >And large proportion of his strong-knit limbs. >Alas, this is a child, a silly dwarf! >It cannot be this weak and writhled shrimp >Should strike such terror to his enemies.” > > > > >I don't think Kramnik is a silly dwarf ! > >/Matthias.
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