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Subject: Re: Is It really so, that D.Fritz was better later because of changes?

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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