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Subject: Re: Did Kramnik make it difficult for Kasparov?

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 07:15:29 10/27/02

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On October 27, 2002 at 10:03:13, Joachim Rang wrote:

>On October 26, 2002 at 18:35:30, Yatheen Manicka wrote:
>
>>It seems to that the recently completed match in Bahrain has made things much
>>more difficult for Kasparov in his match v Deep Junior in December.
>>Deep Fritz demonstrated through trial and error how to play "anti-human" chess
>>vs a GM, eg.,keep queens on the board and avoid positional maneuvering. Deep
>>Junior programmers can benefit from this and go anti-GM against Kasparov from
>>Game 1. In addition, Kasparov does not have an advance copy of DJ to practice
>>against, like Kramnik did.
>
>that's not true, he has one. The only difference is, that the Juniorteam is
>allowed to further develop and/or modify teh engine until the match begins.

No
"like kramnik did" are the key words.

The fact that kasparov got an old copy of Junior is not relevant.

If you want to forbid training against old copy of the program then the only way
is to play human-computer matches only with private programs like Ferret.

Uri



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