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Subject: Re: Yes, What IS the Big Deal About Kramnik v. Deep Fritz?

Author: Graham Laight

Date: 02:45:14 05/03/01

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On May 03, 2001 at 01:28:11, Uri Blass wrote:

>On May 02, 2001 at 23:20:55, Chris Kantack wrote:
><snipped>
>>To me it won't be a big deal.   Not that I don't love computer chess.   But,
>>(last I heard anyway), Kramnik will have full access to the program months
>>before the match.
>
>I understood that it is not going to be truth and the programmers are allowed to
>change the program before the match when the condition is that they send regular
>updates to kramnik and if they send changes some minutes before every game he
>has no time to learn the changes.
>
>Unfortunately I am afraid that it is impossible to do productive changes in the
>last moment so the only chance of the programmers to do something without using
>some tricks that mean not giving the program to kramnik is to do the program
>weaker.
>
>I do not think that something that is 50-100 elo weaker than the top programs of
>today has chance against kramnik so my conclusion is that the match is not
>interesting and the result (a win for kramnik) is known.
>
>Uri

Maybe you're right - but don't forget that in RGCC (and here) most people were
predicting an easy win for GK against Deeper Blue in 1997.

If the Fritz team can get their program running on a system which is much faster
than the one Kramnik will be sparring against, the match could well be more
difficult than he expects.

-g



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