Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 11:36:08 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. This is easier than you think. Remember how the fritz programs were killing chess tiger on ICC? playing 1. h4 which would eliminate the normal opening book preparation. Nemeth has shown that this can be reproduced with other similar "short opening line" ideas. Kramnik really will have a huge advantage, assuming that the Fritz engine can't be modified whatsoever after Kramnik gets his copy. If that is true, this match might be over before the first move gets played.
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