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Subject: Re: what exactly will Kramnik be facing?

Author: Joe McCarro

Date: 10:05:28 06/06/02

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On June 06, 2002 at 12:56:07, James Swafford wrote:

>On June 06, 2002 at 12:17:04, Joe McCarro wrote:
>
>>good question.  My guess is that chessbase is feverishly working to tweak and
>>enhance the program as much as possible until they need to give him a copy. Once
>>they give him a copy I don't think they can alter the software(except the
>>opening book) as it would be a different program.  But Who knows IBM appearently
>>altered Deeper Blues software *mid match* against Kasparov.  Which is obviously
>>worse.(unless they agreed before this could be done which may be the case.  does
>>anyone know?)
>
>That raises an interesting question (that's probably been discussed to death
>before).  What if the program _itself_ was capable of modifying itself. :)
>Wow, that can get pretty deep.
>
>--
>James
That would be fair.  As long as no one tampers with the computer until the match
is over.



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