Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 14:35:07 09/30/02
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On September 29, 2002 at 09:50:57, Mike S. wrote: >On September 29, 2002 at 07:52:52, José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba wrote: > >>He talks about his upcoming match against Fritz, among other things. >>http://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/0,1518,216103,00.html > >SPIEGEL: "Won't you be able just to repeat games which you have won during the >preparation?" > >(Können Sie jetzt nicht einfach jene Partien wiederholen, die Sie in der >Vorbereitung bereits gewonnen haben, um erneut über den Rechner zu >triumphieren?) > >Kramnik: "The probability that a game may be completely identical, is nearly >zero. The preparation against a human is much more specific, because you know >the favoured openings of your opponent." > >(Die Wahrscheinlichkeit, dass eine Partie absolut identisch verläuft, tendiert >gegen null. Die Vorbereitung gegen einen Menschen ist wesentlich konkreter, weil >man die Lieblingseröffnungen seines Gegners kennt.) > >--- > >I wonder how many people will still stick to their opinion that it's "so >unfair... (blah...)" even now when Kramnik himself explains that issue. > >Normally you should expect that even anyone who knows >(a) that there are about 6897997394 fantastillions of opening variants, and >(b) the match will consist only of 4 games where K. has White and 4 with Black, >should be able to reject that idea of repeating preparation games. You don't >even have to know that a program may play differently for various other reasons >after the opening, i.e. slightly different response time of the opponent, other >engine settings... But I've read the "repetition" idea *very* often. I wonder if >anybody who thought so, has ever tried to repeat games against a program. Even >that simple practical test should immediatly show what was wrong with that idea. >:o)) > >Regards, >M.Scheidl I don't personally buy into the playing the same opening type of idea. However, I do buy into the idea that Kramnik is going to find several significant positional weaknesses, and do his best to play into games that highlight those issues... That is a real problem, because book learning won't help
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