Author: Mike S.
Date: 16:52:36 09/06/01
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On September 06, 2001 at 18:16:47, Uri Blass wrote: >If programmers want to beat prepared humans when the humans get the program >then I believe that they can try one of the following ways: > >1)making some changes in the evaluation that happens only in the dates of the >match >(...) >2)giving the exact program but the program asks the user for a passward that >only chessbase know so the opponent cannot use it. I think such "tricky" methods are not quite serious and therefore unavailable (I just hope, no retail version will ever come with that date idea - this would be very bad for testing.) Although, it's usual in computer chess that programs include some randomness as a normal feature, sometimes adjustable. Fritz 6 not (I don't know if Fritz 7 will have that), but it has other engine parameters which can be adjusted in the GUI without changing the program. Kramnik can get more general insights in what the new version is, but he can't simply prepare for special variations or moves. Furthermore he doesn't have the match book. Getting the engine for preparation is totally overestimated by parts of the public IMO. I don't consider it to be decisive, not even very important. As I see it, it can eventually support strategical decisions of Kramnik in a game (i.e. between direct attack or transposing into an endgame or something like that). Regards, M.Scheidl
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