Author: stuart taylor
Date: 19:48:31 10/26/02
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On October 26, 2002 at 22:10:14, Yatheen Manicka wrote: >I believe that the Deep Fritz team was allowed to work on the Opening Book (and >they did) in the course of the match. By choosing openings that avoided an early >exchange of queens, they could keep the match tactically complicated. In >addition, they could have simply instructed Deep Fritz to avoid even queen >exchanges in the middlegame by just increasing the material value of Fritz's own >queen. This is similar to what Kurt Utzinger did with ChessMaster. This change >can be made without needing to alter the program code itself (which was >prohibited). >My point is: Deep Fritz has demontsrated how to play effective anti-human chess >in its last 4 games. Even if Kramnik had not bludered in game 5 and fought for a >draw in game 6, Deep Fritz did not come close to losing in the last 4 games. >Hence, its anti-GM strategy was in fact effective. Deep Junior can simply >emulate this approach from game 1 of its match against Kasparov, effectively >preventing any human wins. >Ed Let's see. I expect they will do what you say, if Amir Ban agrees with you. S.Taylor
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