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Subject: Re: Not Fritz 7!, Not Deep Fritz!, but Deep Fritz Grandmaster 1.0!!

Author: Lonnie Cook

Date: 10:57:34 07/22/01

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On July 22, 2001 at 10:44:24, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>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 agree, GM Huebner is playing very riskless chess and it is clear he is
dictating the flow of the games.

>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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