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Subject: Re: Kramnik: No access to Opponent's Games. Unfair!

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 21:17:43 06/02/02

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On June 02, 2002 at 22:15:52, Robert Henry Durrett wrote:

>I forgot to mention:
>
>In the construction of DF's anti-Kramnik opening book, the construction likely
>began with a book initially made from a complete set of Kramnik's games.  At
>least, that's the approach I would take in constructing the book.  After the
>innitial book based on Kramnik's games was constructed, then improvements
>probably were found for each and every line favoring Kramnik.  Perhaps this
>phase of the book development used a semi-automated process too, taking material
>from a large database of recent GM games.  [ex:  Megabase with non-GM games
>purged out.]  There may be or may have been a team of HUMAN GMs involved in this
>process.
>
>[[This effort may be going on right now, or may be already completed.]]
>
>DF will be "fully prepared" for any opening Kramnik has ever played, or even
>dreamed about.
>
>Where is the **compensating** advantage for Kramnik to offset this HUGE
>advantage for DF?
>
>How could "allowing Kramnik to play with the computer for a few weeks" possibly
>offer sufficient compensation?

It is more than enough compensation.

I think that kramnik is going to have more problems against computer that he
knows nothing about it's weaknesses even if the computer did no preperation
against kramnik.

Playing against the computer to learn it's weaknesses is very important.

Book is not so important because at least with white it is easy to throw the
opponent out of book in few books with equality.

Uri



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