Author: Don Prohaska
Date: 08:39:21 09/07/01
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On September 07, 2001 at 09:43:00, Christopher R. Dorr wrote: >I really do not see these conditions as a huge advantage for Kramnik. > >1. If Kramnik was going to play a serious match against a human GM, he would >study all the games by him/her in depth. Most human GMs would have hundreds or >thousands of games to study. Deep Fritz does NOT have these games yet. A >reasonable alternative would be to allow the GM to use the program before hand. >The CB team certainly has studied *all* of Kramnik's games closely. Why should >the computer have the advantage of knowing the GMs style and weaknesses when the >GM does not get to understand the computers? > >2. Fritz can change it's book at will. If there *are* any 'predetermined' games, >they arise from the opening. Modify the book, elimninate the problem. > >3. And I doubt there could be predetermined games anyway. Think about the >variety of openings. Kramnik is going to *find* and *memorize* killer lines in >everything? As black, he would have to prepare for at least 12 major openings by >white, and literally hundreds of important subvariations (If he chooses to play >a Scheveningen Sicilian, for example, you need to worry about Keres attack with >h3, Keres Attack with Rg1, Classical, Bc4, King's Indian Attack......). And >remember, there are already very few *big* holes in Fritz's opening book. The >*small* ones Kramnik would find would likely be further down the tree, making it >even more unlikely that he could spring a particular trap. > > >Overall, I do not see Kramnik as getting a huge advantage. He didn't get the >source code. The program isn't under a 'truth serum'. He has access to it's >play, just as CB has access to all of Kramnik's games. As matches go, I see this >one as fairly equal in it's treatment of the two players. What you say is so obvious, I wonder why it hasn't been brought up before. At least I don't remember it being presented in such a clear way. I can't see your statement being refuted. But it will be. Don
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