Author: stuart taylor
Date: 01:26:49 08/17/01
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On August 17, 2001 at 02:10:53, Mogens Larsen wrote: >On August 16, 2001 at 20:39:19, Jorge Pichard wrote: > > >>Mogens, you should have been a lawyer, and probably I would have hired you, but >>what are you talking about?. I was simply trying to make sense of Kramnik's >>statement, in which he gave so much credit to Deep Fritz Playing strength. > >That was my point. Your attempt to make sense of Kramnik's statement sounded >like complete nonsense to me. The interview looks like a children's version of a >buildup to a heavyweight boxing match. Taking it serious is the last thing you >should do. The same goes for creating silly conjectures out of nothing. > >>Doesn't your intuition make you wonder too. > >I only wonder if the hype will explode in their face. > >Regards, >Mogens Not all that easy for any human (in history) to win many straight games against an unseen top program, is it? Yes, it's obvious hype, of course, certainly now that he can be familiar with the program, but there IS some difficulty if it hadn't been seen. Dean Hergott was crushed by Hiarcs 6.0 on very slow software, tournament timings, and many such similar things have happened, and this Fritz is much much stronger. S.Taylor
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