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Subject: Re: You're forgetting that Kramnik is not outplaying Fritz too much either!

Author: martin fierz

Date: 21:59:23 10/17/02

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On October 17, 2002 at 22:12:38, stuart taylor wrote:

>Which shows that the human greatness is being rendered less killing than it used
>to be. This is true even without the human blunders! If Kramnic would make even
>a very small error, often then, the computer could begin to outplay Kramnik.
>S.Taylor

why am i forgetting what? kramnik outplayed fritz in games 2 & 3.

aloha
  martin

>
>On October 17, 2002 at 18:30:39, martin fierz wrote:
>
>>On October 17, 2002 at 16:40:41, Matthew Hull wrote:
>>
>>>On October 17, 2002 at 15:35:33, Mike S. wrote:
>>>
>>>>On October 17, 2002 at 15:18:48, stuart taylor wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>Why? Because even if Kramnik wins the last game, It doesn't make it look like
>>>>>Deeper Blue was really any better than Deep Fritz. And also, it shows computers
>>>>>to be up at the top, and also gives Kasparov a big incentive to beat that
>>>>>result vs. Deep Junior. (...)
>>>>
>>>>Regarding mass media perspective, draws of both matches would be most useful
>>>>results for computer chess in general. Because it neither could  be claimed
>>>>based on results that comps are stronger or that top human players are stronger.
>>>>Which would mean, both the protesters against these 2 opinions had 50% to
>>>>complain against, and the followers of both opinions would have 50% support
>>>>each.
>>>>
>>>>So - optimistically thought - it could result in only half the nonsense than
>>>>when one side would win.
>>>>
>>>>Regards,
>>>>M.Scheidl
>>>
>>>
>>>But the games won by Fritz were actually lost by Kramnik.
>>
>>not quite. in game 5 kramnik was outplayed in what seemed to be an equal
>>position. fritz managed to get a position with some winning chances in that
>>game, without kramnik's ...Qc4?? blunder even. not that i think fritz would have
>>won the 4-3 queen endgame, because it seems to lack some knowledge there, but
>>still it would have outplayed kramnik from an equal position.
>>so while the blunder lost instantly, we did see a game where fritz got kramnik
>>into trouble "by itself".
>>
>>the reason i think fritz would not have won the q-ending: i played the black
>>side against my fritz 7 on my laptop at 2/40, after the trade in the Q-ending i
>>played ...h5 as black, which i think gives the right defensive setup, fritz
>>played g4 (still good) hg4 hg4 but 2 moves later it played the horrible g5? as
>>white, with the resulting pawn structure e5-f4-g5 vs f7-g6 which seems to give
>>black an easy draw. of course my laptop is much slower than the box in bahrain,
>>but if fritz plays g5 at search depth 14 it might as well play it at depth 18 -
>>it clearly doesnt know that it should avoid this move.
>>perhaps this is also something that could be tried with DF after the match, i
>>think kramnik would have drawn the q-ending easily, but he was afraid of it!
>>
>> >people want--as real evidence of parity/superiority--to see the computer take
>>it
>>>to the opponent and really out-GM the GM, rather than win by human blunder.
>>>They want to see a program that can play all aspects of the game like or better
>>>than a human GM.
>>
>>right! but we are getting closer... some years ago, computers only won when
>>humans lost games. in recent GM-comp matches i have seen a couple of great games
>>by the comps e.g. smirin-hiarcs where hiarcs played the endgame with BB-BN in
>>great style to reach a winning position but slipped at the last moment allowing
>>a fortress, or rebel-vanwely, a great attacking game, or hiarcs-gulko. in all
>>these games, the computer took the initiative and pressured the GM with great
>>play. this doesn't happen very often yet, but the day will come...
>>
>>aloha
>>  martin



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