Author: Rajen Gupta
Date: 12:30:21 06/21/01
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On June 21, 2001 at 10:13:38, Uri Blass wrote: >On June 21, 2001 at 09:41:01, Pierre Bourget wrote: > >>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. > >Printout of games? >He gets only printout of the games and not the program? > >I thought that the contract says that kramnik obtains more than it. >I thought that the cotract says that kramnik gets the program and not only >printout of games. > >I thought that the idea of the contract was that kramnik is going to play at >home against the machine,finding weaknesses when the programmers have no >information about the games. > >I thought that the idea of the contract was to do the match uninteresting when >everybody is going to know before the match that kramnik is going to win because >he has an unfair advantage. > >I am also against giving kramnik printout of the games because >I believe that the printout of the games of Deep Fritz against Junior and the >games of it in the ssdf should be enough and kramnik is not going to give the >programmers of Fritz a printout of all of his preperations but I thought that >the idea was to make the match even more unfair. > >Uri if this is true then i think it is a gentlemans agreement-big vlad does n't actually get the programme before the match but a print out-either of a collection of games or analyses of positions-this will give both competitors a fighting chance. perhaps this is what garry should have insisted upon before the second deep blue match. of course cynics might say that the programme can be tweaked further and the printouts might be "out of date" rajen rajen rajen
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