Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 07:44:24 07/22/01
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On July 22, 2001 at 08:57:56, Drazen Marovic wrote: >Not Fritz 7!, Not Deep Fritz!, but Deep Fritz Grandmaster 1.0!! This should be >the name of the next version of Fritz. Just to take a slap at all of the non >believers in fritz's grandmaster strength. Mogens you said you didn't believe >in psychics, but you would believe in amazing luck time and time again, isn't it >amazing how yet again a non GM strength program could hold a 2600+ GM to an even >score- just luck i'm sure..... Did you ever stop to think that a 2600 player _could_ hold a 2400 player to a drawn match result just as easily? If a GM wants to draw, it is _very_ difficult to prevent it. I explained the problem a month+ ago... to win a match, the GM has to first not lose it, which means he will play carefully. And wait for the machine to make a horrible mistake that gives him an easy way to a technical win. If the match were set up so that the GM gets $100K for each win, nothing for a draw or loss, then the match would be different. And it is very likely that the GM would play far differently since only a win makes him any money. But matches aren't done like that, and while we'd like to see lop-sided results in these events, match strategy dictates that against the computer, the match score is going to be _very_ close to avoid taking dangerous chances.
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