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

Author: Sandro Necchi

Date: 21:52:23 06/24/01

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On June 24, 2001 at 15:15:21, Uri Blass wrote:

>On June 24, 2001 at 14:27:12, Sandro Necchi wrote:
>
>>On June 24, 2001 at 03:25:13, Uri Blass wrote:
>>
>>>On June 24, 2001 at 00:33:34, Sandro Necchi wrote:
>>>
>>>>On June 22, 2001 at 10:58:35, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>On June 22, 2001 at 09:36:17, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>chessbase could get good PR out of this by focussing on the fact that
>>>>>>deepfritz will search way deeper as deep blue did!
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>Not a single chance in hell this would happen.
>>>>
>>>>Hi,
>>>>
>>>>yes,  you are, as always, 100% correct.
>>>>
>>>>I really do not understand how people can think a chess program which can play
>>>>about 2200 in close positions and 2600 in open positions (extimated ratings)
>>>>against one of the strongest player of the World can have any chance expecially
>>>>since the human player will know exactly what the opponent will play. This would
>>>>bring down the strenght of the program of at least another 200 points!
>>>
>>>Fritz is better than 2600 in open positions and 2200 in closed position.
>>>
>>>2900 in open positions and 2500 in closed position seems to be more realistic.
>>
>>No if talking about human Elo. I do not believe it.
>>>
>>>A computer with rating of 2600 in open positions and 2200 in closed position
>>>could not get performance of more than 2400 against humans even if the humans do
>>>no special preperation and old Fritz got prerformance of more than 2400 in the
>>>israeli league on hardware that is clearly slower than the hardware against
>>>kramnik even after part of the humans did special preperation.
>>
>>Ok, but the computers are very good against chess players up to 2500 Elo, so
>>this may give the impression they play about 2600 as an average.
>>Against stronger opponents (2650 and above) they would score less.
>
>The opposite
>Against strong humans they score more points
>The best performance of computers against humans was not against weak 2400
>players but against players with average rating of 2702.

At blitz and fast games not at slow games.
>
>>>
>>>>
>>>>So how can one expect a 2200 player to win against a 2700 (about) one?
>>>>
>>>>The best chances for a program to get and advanted against such a strong player
>>>>are to be able to surprise him in the opening phase, but how the match is set it
>>>>will be the opposite
>>>
>>>I do not believe that Kramnik is going to get the opening book of Deep Fritz
>>>before the match.
>>
>>I thought this was a fixed condition of the match. Didn't they?
>
>I think it is not a condition of the match.
>I read that kramnik said that he is going to get printout of Fritz's games
>before the match and it means that he is not going to get the program.

OK, good to know for the future...
>
>Uri

Sandro



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