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Subject: Re: What is:Kramnik really saying about Fritz's strength? - GM level??

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 03:26:32 06/22/01

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On June 22, 2001 at 03:26:58, Alois Ganter wrote:

>>
>>I'd bet he has _no_ idea, that he hasn't talked to anyone that really knows
>>anything about deep blue at all.  He is either talking to the ChessBase guys
>>(the same ones that told Kasparov that if he practiced against Fritz he would
>>be well-prepared to play DB2) or talking to people that simply don't know.
>>
>
>Presumably he is talking to his second GM Miguel Illescas who was on the Deep
>Blue team and who knows and understands more about the playing strength of the
>Deep Blue myth than any self-appointed expert here.
>
>Yes, it is the same Illescas that lost 0:2 against Deep Junior at g/60 in the
>Kasparov.com Grand Prix. No, Deep Junior didn't play GM level in those games. He
>only calculated more deeply.

I do not understand

You can always say it about computers so I suspect that by your definition
computers will never play GM level.

Even if programs solve chess they do not play better than GM's but only
calculate more deeply.

Uri



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