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Subject: Re: G.K won't have a chance at G/30 with a special opening for Fritz !

Author: blass uri

Date: 06:51:30 06/19/00

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On June 19, 2000 at 07:40:31, Jorge Pichard wrote:

>On June 18, 2000 at 18:30:58, blass uri wrote:
>
>>On June 18, 2000 at 17:25:00, Jorge Pichard wrote:
>>
>>>On June 18, 2000 at 17:17:55, Jorge Pichard wrote:
>>>
>>>>On June 18, 2000 at 16:12:34, Nick Kratsias wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>On June 18, 2000 at 11:09:49, Jorge Pichard wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>Fritz is proving on the Frankfurt Rapid chess classic that indeed it could be
>>>>>>accomplish, to beat Kasparvov in a mini match of 5 games at 30 min per game.
>>>>>>I am basing this on the fact that Anand is a better player at blitz than
>>>>>>Kasparov and so far Fritz has not lost a single game yet. The Primergy is not as
>>>>>>close as what Deep Blue was, but being able to calculate over 2.8 moves per
>>>>>>second is a big plus when playing at 25 Min per game or even at 30 Minutes.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Pichard.
>>>>>
>>>>>Kasparov is better at g/30, and in a match of 4 games at this time control,
>>>>>anand beat fritz last year.
>>>>
>>>>The improvement on fritz is about 30 points from last year, plus Primergy is
>>>>about 3 times faster this year 900,000 positions per seconds vs 2.8 millions
>>>>positions per seconds. Point in case Anand has not won a single game agains
>>>>fritz on this Rapid Chess Classic at Frankfurt.
>>>It is much harder for a programmer like frans to built a special opening agains
>>>different opponents as it was in this case.
>>
>>The problem of Fritz was not opening book but the fact that it has problems with
>>king attacks.
>>
>>In these 25 minutes/game the best chance against computers is to play for a king
>>attack.
>>
>>Fritz lost 2 games because of king attacks.
>>
>>Chess system tal often win against top programs by king attack at long time
>>control so it has good results in the millenium tournament.
>>
>>
>>You can see some games of  the millenium tournament in
>>http://www.oxford-softworks.com/fcchess.html
>>
>>Uri
>
>Frans can make a few adjustment to the parameter to avoid any further King
>Attacks, specially on his last two games with Shirov.
>
>Pichard.

I am not sure if it is so easy.
The point is that cahnging the opening book is not enough.

Uri



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