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Subject: Re: I not convinced by this tournament

Author: Peter Kappler

Date: 13:53:33 05/15/00

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On May 15, 2000 at 16:33:05, Dann Corbit wrote:

>On May 15, 2000 at 16:00:56, Jerry Adams wrote:
>>On May 15, 2000 at 15:08:50, Michel Langeveld wrote:
>>>Fritz received a point from Bosboom for free.
>>>Van Doel played very weak.
>>>Tiviakov drawed, but could win if he had more time.
>>>
>>>Have you seen what Loek van Wely did with Fritz?? He practices a lot on ICC with
>>>the alias KingLoek.
>>>
>>>Fritz is a strong program, but as I said I'm not convinced by this tournament
>>>only.
>>>
>>>Btw. Did you know Fritz will receive a full point in round 10 agains V.d.
>>>sterren?
>>>
>>>Kind regards,
>>>
>>>Michel Langeveld
>>
>>
>>If my grandmother had wings she could fly!! All the reasons you list that the
>>grandmasters didn't win is all part of the game of chess!! If I had more time I
>>could beat garry kasparov. (infinite) Who are you to say Loek van wely played
>>weak?? I suppose then you are stronger then a GM??. If everyone played the Best
>>all the time their would be only draws, someone has to play weaker to lose a
>>chess game. Just accept that Fritz plays grandmaster strength chess.
>
>Some of the GM's clearly tanked it.  If you doubt that, then I don't know what
>to say to you.
>

If you're thinking of the Van der Doel game, he was interviewed afterwards and
said he simply miscalculated 11... f4 by Fritz.  I tend to believe him - if he
wanted to throw the game he could have made it much more obvious.  None of the
other games (except Bosboom's) look at all suspicous to me.

BTW, I think it's a shame that the sudden death time control didn't include an
increment.  Tiviakov essentially had to play the last 20 moves of today's game
at a blitz pace, which kept him from winning an easily won game.

Instead of insisting that Fritz play without endgame tablebases, the players
should have demanded a time increment in the sudden-death time control.

--Peter





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