Author: Martin Giepmans
Date: 06:35:46 08/08/01
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On August 08, 2001 at 07:11:20, Uri Blass wrote: >On August 08, 2001 at 03:04:26, Jouni Uski wrote: > >>There is too much info and links in Chessbase site - I don't find the essential >>part. Have I understand right, that Chessbase has given Kramnik final software >>version now? So Vladimir has 2 months to find killer opening lines to demolish >>machine! Or has they still right to change opening book, may be? >> >>Jouni > >I read that they gave kramnik only printout of games of Fritz7 and not the >program. >I read that the programmers are not going to have the right to change the >program during the match and kramnik is going to have the right to adjourn games >after 6 hours. > >I also read that Deep Fritz can see 500M nodes per second and for some reason I >do not believe that it is truth. > >500M nodes per second can be truth only if there is some breakthrough on >hardware or if Deep Fritz is going to use hundreds of different personal >computers at the same time and not one SMP machine(I believe that theoretically >it is not impossible and zunzwang already uses a lot of comuters not in an SMP >machine) but for some reason I guess that neither of these events is the case. > >Uri Mathias Feist told me a few months ago that the contract with Kramnik doesn't include the book that Fritz will use. The book is kept secret. And no, it isn't 500M/s. A journalist who was apparently not very well informed mentioned 500M/s. In fact it's approx. 5M/s. Martin
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