Author: Mark Young
Date: 06:44:19 07/06/01
Go up one level in this thread
On July 06, 2001 at 05:29:53, martin fierz wrote: >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. This match has been discussed here, and you are correct this is the match up for the computer to win for all who don't think computers are Grandmasters. GM Huebner has ever advantage in this match, and anything less then a victory for GM Huebner should stop all the noise about computers not being Grandmaster strength. > >cheers > martin
This page took 0 seconds to execute
Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700
Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.