Author: Rolf Tueschen
Date: 14:49:29 06/02/02
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On June 02, 2002 at 17:34:10, Robert Henry Durrett wrote: >At http://kramnik.homestead.com/Fujitsu.html, Kramnik is quoted as saying: > >"It is much more difficult to prepare against a computer than against a human >opponent. When I play GMs I prepare the openings which belong to my repertoire >and which I consider to be good. Against a computer the same method is not so >convenient partly due to the fact that computer is allowed to check huge opening >databases during the game that may include specific preparation against my >favorite variations. It is also important to understand that even if my analysis >may be quite good I can't simply remember all of them so it looks dangerous to >enter into a theoretical opening battle." > >This raises the question: Will DF have real-time access to considerably MORE >than an opening book during the play of the match games? Specifically, will DF >be able to study a database such as Megabase 2002 **during** these games? > >If it is true, then one might wonder what the outcome of the match would prove. >Normal DF programs do not have such access, nor do they [presumably] incorporate >software to peruse and evaluate database games. Although questions of morality >are surely dead end and pointless, it would seem important that the match >realistically represent future human/computer matches. If DF wins, one might >wonder whether or not it might have won with a normal opening book and nothing >else. > >Normally, when Kramnik, or anybody else, plays against a commercial version of >any chess engine, he is playing against an opening book which is NOT optimized >for play against any one human. > >However, DF being given an “anti-Kramnik” opening book should not be deemed >unreasonable because that is no different from what happens in human-human >matches. For example, when Kasparov prepared for his ill-fated match against >Kramnik, Kasparov prepared and memorized his own “secret” anti-Kramnik opening >book. This sort of thing is normal in all human-human matches. DF would be >unfairly handicapped if DF were to be denied the use of it’s own "secret" >anti-Kramnik opening book. > >As to who prepares DF’s anti-Kramnik opening book . . . Well, that too is not >much different from what is done in preparation for high level human-human >matches. The players typically have a team of GMs working on this long before >the match. > >So, that leaves the issue of appropriateness and wisdom of letting DF use a >Megabase database during the game. > >After all, this is not supposed to be an “Advanced Chess” match. Is it? > >Bob D. Of course it is, but only for the machine's side! ;-) That's why I wanted to inspire a change in traditional computerchess. Rolf Tueschen
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