Author: Rolf Tueschen
Date: 02:53:36 10/02/02
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On October 02, 2002 at 04:45:06, Jorge Pichard wrote:
>He said that what matter is to develop the most unusual tastics possible.
>This statement could have been acceptable if the actual 8x MP system and program
>was not given to him before the match, but everybody know that what he will
>actually do is to replay games that he already knows what the outcome will be,
>since he already had plenty of time to play many games specially certain
>openings and he already had played different moves out of the opening to see
>what deep fritz would play etc...
>
>http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=530
You must read the ChessBase News with a grain of salt. Nothing is completely
correct in the parts where opinions are involved. Already the wording a "4-page
interview in SPIEGEL" is a lie if you read it as if there were 4 full pages. But
as you know from TIME Magazine 1 page often is just 1 column!! The total length
is exactly 2 pages and three thirds. But 4 pages reds better in the hype.
Let me just remind you of the long forgotten truth that the hype in 1997 for the
match / show between Kasparov and DEEP BLUE was not only a chapter of the PR of
IBM, but also the ChessBase=Friedel=Kasparov side. That coalition must have been
broken in the aftermath because Kasparov had completely suppressed in his memory
that it was his own camp being part of the hoax. You must now read
**ChessBase=Friedel=FRITZ=Kramnik**
to get the complete content of the actual pseudo event. The extremely ridiculous
wording of Kramnik that FRITZ is better than DEEP BLUE in face of the objective
wrongness of the statement if you compare the power & speed of DB2 from 1997 and
the actual FRITZ in 2002 - is absolute nonsense square hype infinite! Without
the ingenious spin doctor Frederic Friedel the whole event would not have been
even 'disigned' in a first attempt...
But to be clear, the final result is not a function of the _real_ strength
alone. Kramnik can't beat FRITZ simply by 8:0, then get the money of the oil
potentate and then taking the next flyer to Moscow. Kramnik said it in his own
interview to the SPIEGEL. His interest is not to destroy the ego or how you may
define it (just say economical power of ChessBase) like Fischer and Kasparov
(!). So many draws will be received and perhaps a little win. Unfortunately it's
only 8 games, so mathematically you can't expect too many surprises= variations.
But why not three draws, two wins for FRITZ and three wins for Kramnik, now
_that_ would be the hype!!!!!! It would cry for more! :))
Rolf Tueschen
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