Author: Uri Blass
Date: 12:59:59 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. Yes but a GM is not going to play for a draw against 2400 player in a 6 game match. He is going to play for a win because he knows that even after losing one game he has very good chances to get at least +2 =3 in the other 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. It is very likely that Deep Fritz could win 4-2 with no draws or 3-2 with one draw in this case and people are going to complain that the GM could do better result of 3-3 at normal conditions. Uri
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