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Subject: Re: Kramnik on his match with DeepFritz

Author: Vincent Diepeveen

Date: 06:22:07 06/22/01

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On June 21, 2001 at 10:13:38, Uri Blass wrote:

Oh well he can buy deep fritz in a shop then he has deepfritz.
the only thing he won't have is the book of course.

I told you this months ago. Contracts sometimes seem harder as they
are in fact.

Best regards,
Vincent

>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



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