Computer Chess Club Archives


Search

Terms

Messages

Subject: Re: Qualification: Kramnik vs. Computer ...

Author: Chessfun

Date: 12:08:16 04/15/01

Go up one level in this thread


On April 15, 2001 at 11:53:57, Aaron Tay wrote:

>On April 15, 2001 at 08:46:11, Frank Quisinsky wrote:
>
>>Hi there,
>>
>>when started the *?qualification?* for the match Kramnik vs. Computer?
>>
>>I hope not next week so all have a chance to thinking about this event or spend
>>ideas. This is very important!
>>
>>Which person have here more information?
>>
>>Best
>>Frank
>
>Whoever or whatever wins the qualification would have not much of a chance
>anyway..Unlike deep Blue whoever that wins is a well known program, that Kramnik
>can prepare against, I doubt the programmer can make enough changes to make it
>totally different from older ones..
>
>But I guess just becoming the challenger would be the holy grail for most
>professionals, since that would probably increase sales by a large amount, and
>raise the profile of the challenger in the minds of the general Public, after
>Deep Blue, Chessmaster and Fritz..
>
>While I don't like the idea of the current qualification arrangements, I'll be
>happy with ANY Challenger since
>
>1) I don't think any is much stronger than anyother. Even Shredder, which I must
>admit though is very consistent in real tournaments.
>
>2) I don't have any interest in pushing for the increased profile of any of the
>programs..
>
>Just looking forward to see how well the top chess programs handle Kramnik..
>
>Aaron


Nice post.
Let them get on with the match.

Sarah.





This page took 0 seconds to execute

Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700

Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.