Author: Joshua Lee
Date: 11:19:22 07/22/01
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On July 22, 2001 at 09:13:39, Jonas Cohonas wrote: >On July 22, 2001 at 09:02:54, Joshua Lee wrote: > >>You've never read GM Kramnik's statements about a Match with Fritz have you? >>Basically if a GM want's a Draw then he will get one. Heubner hasn't been very >>active untill recently so this may be a little warm up. But none the less he >>should've crushed fritz seeing how it only deserves a 2612 rating if it were on >>hardware several times faster than it was. Hat's off to Fritz and it's >>programmers. > >I think Huebner did what he could to draw, nothing more nothing less, i was not >impressed with either DF or Huebner. Huebner was affraid to lose, and excanged >pieces like his life depended on it BOOOORING. DF 2612 on a dual 1gig, CT14.0 >2782 on an 800mhz maby the wrong program is to face Kramnik??? > >Regards >Jonas Results like the one's you mention prove that this is not an exact science. while DF can Draw like a GM and CT can beat a GM or two maybe 3 (i didn't follow the match) I seriously doubt that Computers are GM's in every phase of the game Kasparov said DB "The computer was like a 2800 player in the endgame", i think the DB team said they had all 6 piece and some 8 piece endgame tablebases but i may be mis quoting the team This is a hugh statement coming from one of the best endgame players (Karpov and Smyslov helped with Encyclopedia of Chess Endgames which may not say much lots of errors however Smyslov's Rook Endings is supposed to be really good) So Computers play over 2000 in the endgame for sure Chess Tiger and other programs when it comes to tactics will play over 2000 Deep Fritz can make GM draws but even experts 2000-2199 have beaten GM's on occasion so this does NOT say much The day you have a GM or IM say yes it's as good as me or it is better then i think this confusion will be over.
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