Author: Joshua Lee
Date: 11:14:59 08/03/01
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On August 02, 2001 at 16:13:38, Uri Blass wrote: >On August 02, 2001 at 14:22:32, Joshua Lee wrote: > >>It annoys me when Chessbase Claims their product is "Better" because of the win >>of Fritz 3 The reason for this loss is explained in the Monty Newbord book >>"Kasparov Vs Deep Blue" The transposition was in their database but the book >>wasn't used correctly, Impressive is they found that o-o is bad in the search >>which is pretty deep by the way , then the communication line dropped. >> >>So please people Fritz got lucky and didn't win due to more knowledge or skill >>so you can stop using this for evidence of Fritz being better than deep blue > >1)Fritz did not win because of 0-0 >c4 was the tactical blunder of Deep thought. > >I remember that I tried a comp-comp game from the position before c4 and white >won it(I think that it was a game between Genius3 and itself). > >Unfortunately I did not save the game. > >2)Do they have also an excuse for the fact that Deep thought could do only a >draw against Wchess in the same tournament? > >Uri It's funny that you mention the Wchess Game as i was about to post about it that i was more impressed by that game than the one with Fritz. Oh and no there are no excuses for that draw, mind you that you only need be rated 2104 to get a "single" draw against a 2500 out of 100 Games atleast statistically. It may just be proof that you need more than 100Million nodes per second to win that game :)
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