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

Author: Bob Durrett

Date: 07:32:42 10/27/02

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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.

But that is exactly the kind of game Kasparov plays well.  Getting the queens
off maybe should be the best anti-Kasparov strategy.

Bob D.


>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



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