Author: martin fierz
Date: 02:29:53 07/06/01
hi, from 15th july on GM robert huebner (~2600) will be playing a 6 game match against deep fritz in dortmund. here's the promotional ad from the chessbase website: >In a 6-game match between man and machine, Dr. Robert Hübner will battle >it out against the chess program Deep Fritz. The best German from the >post-war era was once a candidate for the world championship. Hübner is >a player is known as an inquiring mind who hates superficiality. In the >past he has refused to play against computers on principle, but now even >he is intrigued by the challenge that the strongest chess programs present. huebner is rated 2612 (july 1st) and is a very experienced player. after chess tiger's great performance in argentine, i am very curious to see this match. we have had a lot of arguments here about GM strength of computers. chess tiger has made a clear "pro" statement in argentine. however, some people (me included!) feel that such a tournament is not the proper way to show that a computer is GM strength. i think that the GM should prepare seriously for such a game or match, and i also think that the incentive to do so must be sufficiently high. as GM huebners dislike of computers is well-known, i am convinced that he will come well prepared for this match. and it will be a match, not just a single game (like dreev - junior recently). time controls are not given on the chessbase page, but i think it is standard 2h/40 moves (does anybody know?). if deep fritz manages a good result, i will shut up on the GM issue! of course, we can still argue about the 'good result' :-) (for me it would be anything better or equal 3 points in this match for fritz, but 2.5 points would already be good enough for GM performance). i'm really looking forward to this, because i believe it is a much more meaningful test for a program than a single game against an underprepared GM. cheers martin
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