Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 12:35:30 06/03/02
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On June 03, 2002 at 11:22:56, Robert Henry Durrett wrote: >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. Another example of how smart the IBM people were in gaining all possible advantages. No preparation = plenty of surprises. "No computer can make that move!" ;-)
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