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Subject: Re: What seems to be forgotten in the Fritz - Kramnik match

Author: Bertil Eklund

Date: 04:12:57 06/06/01

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On June 06, 2001 at 06:58:28, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:

>...is that Fritz played the Dutch open just last year, on a quad,
>and it didn't win, it didn't even got second. It got _third_, and
>this while several players forfeited vs it in protest.
>
>We're only one year of development further now, and the hardware
>will be twice as fast, *no more*. Not even a ply more for Fritzie.
>
>The Dutch are pretty ok as far as chess is concerned, but it's
>not like they have any players that are remotely as strong as
>Kramnik.
>
>It was not in the top 2 of Dutch players, and now it is supposed
>to stand a chance vs. the World Champion? Uhh, well maybe if he
>gets sick or crazy or something.
>
>ChessBase likes people to forget this, but the truth is that their
>2700+ SSDF ELO player can't even stand up to 2550 human ELO opposition.
>
>Witness the 'genius' at action for yourself:
>
>Van Wely - Fritz, 7th round NK 2000
>1.c4 e5 2.g3 Nf6 3.Bg2 Nc6 4.Nc3 Bb4 5.a3 Bxc3 6.bxc3 O-O 7.e4
>
>Frans Morsch: 'its over now'
>
>7...a6 8.a4 d6 9.d3 Bg4 10.f3 Bd7 11.Ne2 Qc8 12.h3 b6 13.f4 Be6 14.f5 Bd7 15.g4
>Ne8 16.Ng3 Qd8 17.g5 Bc8 18.h4 f6 19.Qh5 Na5 20.Ra3 Qe7 21.Nf1 Nc6 22.Ne3 Qd7
>23.g6 h6 24.Ng4 Ra7 25.Rg1 1 - 0
>
>[D]2b1nrk1/r1pq2p1/ppnp1pPp/4pP1Q/P1P1P1NP/R1PP4/6B1/2B1K1R1 b - - 0 25
>
>--
>GCP

Hi!

The Deep-Fritz-version that played in Cadaques was about 30% slower then todays
Deep-Fritz. I have heard that it should be clearly better positionally.
The results against the other top-programs (Tiger, Junior and Shredder) (if
true) are also clearly better then Deep-Fritz of today.

Anyway Kramnik is Kramnik and of course he is much better then the best dutch
players.

Bertil
















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