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Subject: Re: Fritz has disappointed me in Holland ...

Author: Ulrich Tuerke

Date: 00:53:19 05/16/00

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On May 16, 2000 at 03:49:50, Tony Werten wrote:

>On May 16, 2000 at 03:17:32, Pete Galati wrote:
>
>>On May 16, 2000 at 02:11:16, Jouni Uski wrote:
>>
>>>... one mere win in in 8 games. Pity.
>>>
>>>Jouni
>>>
>>>(Of course it has GM strength no discussion about that, please)
>>
>>Actually, I have not been following the tournament, but if it only got one win
>>out of 8, my first reaction is; how well was this program setup?
>>
>>On the other hand, if it was running full blast on a well setup, and good
>>computer, that either says; never underestimate the strength of a grandmaster (I
>>think that's what it says) or/and, the Grandmasters are learning to play against
>>computers very well.
>
>The last couple of games I've seen quite a standard approach from the
>grandmasters. First try to block everything.
>Then decide if you want to break up the blockade or take the draw.
>
>I had expected that everyone would (have to ) take the draw, but in this kind of
>positions the grandmasters seem to be able to see that breakthrough a lot better
>than the computer. That's not really a surprise but I thought the difference
>would be smaller. Still a lot of work to be done.
>
>Although it's not nice for Frans, I don't believe it's bad for computerchess. At
>least one has an answer to the very annoying "Chess has been solved, because
>Kasparov lost to Deep Blue".
>Now hope this will lead to more interest and sponsoring.
>
>Tony
>
>>
>>Pete

Sorry, you guys have probably never been on a man machine event. You would know
what a "terrible" opponent a computer-experienced grandmaster is.
It was naive to think thatb Fritz could walk thru here.
Uli



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