Author: Pierre Bourget
Date: 06:41:01 06/21/01
From an interview at Kasparovchess site: One more serious contest is in store for you, the match with a computer. How are you preparing for this match? It’s common knowledge that, in preparing for duels with humans, you don’t rely on a computer’s help much. It’s true that I prefer to work in the good old fashion. Well, certainly I will play training games at home. According to the contract, I will obtain the printouts of the DeepFritz games in late summer. I take this match very seriously and I really believe that the computer will be a hard nut to crack. The rumors that DeepFritz is a far cry from DeepBlue are not true to life. I don’t think that DeepFritz is much weaker than DeepBlue. However, I know that the programmers have made vast headway in the past three years. Fritz’s play is getting stronger every year. At some moments the machine really acquires human features – for instance, it sacrifices material with a view to gaining the initiative. So I am not at all sure that I will be a success at this match. Of course, the world’s strongest chess players are better at evaluating positions than computers, but people can get tired and get caught in time trouble and so on. The end of the match will be the most difficult stage of all.
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