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Subject: Re: Kramnik is Practicing with the Actual 8 X machine a week before ???

Author: Roy Eassa

Date: 15:36:19 09/22/02

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On September 21, 2002 at 14:01:34, Uri Blass wrote:

>On September 21, 2002 at 12:53:14, Joachim Rang wrote:
>
>>On September 21, 2002 at 10:36:10, Jorge Pichard wrote:
>>
>>>Now I don't have any interest in watching this match. Not only Kramnik can
>>>use the actual Fritz software, but the actual 8x machine as well.
>>>
>>>http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=516
>>
>>what's the problem? Fritz is strong enough to challenge the champ, even under
>>these conditions. the match will be close, you'll see.
>
>We will see but I expect even IM's to beat Fritz in these conditions.
>I believe that even some posters in this forum that are not IM's have chances to
>beat Fritz in these conditions.
>


Interesting comment, Uri.  So Fritz running on 8 CPUs is weaker than an IM if
the human opponent has a chance to become reasonably familiar with its strengths
and weaknesses?!  (Even _I_ think Fritz running on 8 CPUs is probably stronger
than the great majority of human IMs.)



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