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

Author: Robert Henry Durrett

Date: 08:22:56 06/03/02

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On June 03, 2002 at 00:17:43, Uri Blass wrote:

>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

A pity that Kasparov was not given this compensation in his matches with DB.

Bob D.  :)



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