Author: Omid David
Date: 08:01:52 08/08/02
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On August 08, 2002 at 10:38:50, Anson T J wrote: >>The Kramnik-Fritz match is a joke in comparison to the Kasparov-Junior "match of >>the century". >> >>While a so-called world champion will play a rather moderate program (see WCCC >>2002), in a forgotten place with no-one's support, the strongest human of all >>time will play the strongest computer of the last two years, with the support of >>official chess and computer chess organizations (FIDE and ICCA), in the capital >>of Israel. > >I don't think Deep Fritz is a "rather moderate" programme. Its hard to shine so >well in a tourny liked the WCCC. It scored 6/9 and came 4th. If you look at more >games like the SSDF list where Fritz 7 has played many games and was top of the >list last time, you will see that it accually much stronger than it looked in >the WCCC. > >Both the K vs Comp matches will be a challenge for both the programmers and the >Grandmasters. What would be nice is they would play K vs K and the Comp vs Comp >matches for comparison :-) No need for that: Kasparov will easily beat Kramnik (as he has done in the last two years) and Fritz can't pose any problem for Junior (the WCCChampion in 2001 and 2002).
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