Author: Pierre Bourget
Date: 16:23:08 07/23/01
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On July 23, 2001 at 18:39:13, Mogens Larsen wrote: >On July 23, 2001 at 18:11:25, Torstein Hall wrote: > >>I actually agrees on that part. I find it ridiculous to award Computer the title >>GM under any conditions! (Its a title for humans having taken part in the right >>tournaments with a high enough score.) But I interpret it in a different way, as >>meening: Are computer as strong as a (mediocre) GM. I think they at least are >>getting pretty close. And as you know, the computers rarly tires etc. etc. >>And now there are some evidence for that strenght. We had Van der Wiel - Rebel >>match, Hübner - Fritz and Tiger wiping the floor with a pretty strong bunch of >>GM's in Argentina. (I must surly have forgotten some other matches as well.) So >>I think the latest results clearly points in that direction. > >All the three match/tournament results you mention lack credibility IMO when it >comes to the question at hand. The players in Argentina had little or no >computer experience AFAIK, which is the problem I mentioned previously. The Van >der Wiel and Hübner efforts shows that it's far from impossible to do well >without too much effort and current playing strength. > >So I interpret the results in the opposite direction. In comparison with the >Kramnik match, which requirements aren't exactly beneficial to Deep Fritz, it's >more revealing than the ones mentioned above. Mainly because the human player >has dictated the terms and has considerable financial and prestigious >incentives. > >>Is it going to be a 9 game match? Then I predict 3 wins for Kramnik with 6 >>draws. Kramnik can draw anyone, or in this case rather anything, when he likes >>to do that. > >No, I think it's a 10 game match. I don't think it'll be a covincing win, >because of match strategy. Kramnik will go for draws with black and various >attacking schemes with white. If computer chess has evolved in the years or so, >I think it'll be able to hold most of games with black. My prediction would be >6-4, ie. eight draws and two wins. > >Regards, >Mogens Just to make it right from the Chessbase site : "In October 2001 BGN world chess champion Vladimir Kramnik will play an eight-game match against the computer program Fritz. In case the computer wins it will receive $400,000. The manufacturers of Fritz have announced that in this case they will pay the entire prize sum into a special "Fritz youth chess foundation", which will be devoted to promoting youth and school chess activities in Europe." Unless they change something at the last minute. Pierre
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