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Subject: Re: Isn't It Similar to Larry's Match With CM9000?

Author: John Merlino

Date: 08:42:35 10/02/02

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On October 02, 2002 at 09:02:06, Dana Turnmire wrote:

>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
>
>Larry Christiansen had almost a month to study Chessmaster 9000 but it didn't
>seem to help him that much.  Since Kramnik doesn't know what openings Fritz will
>play how does he have that much more of an advantage than GM Christiansen?  Is
>the learning feature overrated in chess programs?  If not would it not prevent
>repeat wins by Kramnik?

CM9000 was out for a month before the match, but Christiansen never got the
product. He told me a day or two before the match that he was very familiar with
CM6000, and he just assumed that CM9000 was "much stronger".

Also, Christiansen didn't know which personalities he was going to play against
in games 1-3, so preparation against unknown opponents was pretty much
impossible. He DID draw the Chessmaster personality, so perhaps his preparation
was an advantage in the final game....

jm



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