Author: David Hanley
Date: 11:25:45 10/03/02
I predict Kramnik will win the match pretty comfortably. Here are my reasons: 1) Kramnik is a really amazing tactician, probably one of the best to play the game. It has been noted that fritz often gets into ugly positions and uses tactical tricks to get out of them. Kramnik is not likely to get caught this way very much. 2) Kramnik is, along with Shirov, part of a new school of player who believe that chess much be analyzed through calculation, and that intuition is suicidal. Humans often lose to computers when intuition that works for the whole game is undone by a long tactical sequence. 3) Kramnik's normal style of play is practically anti-computer already. Quiet openings, clear positional play designed to build up endgame advantages. 4) Kramnik has had a copy of fritz to work with for months. He will be able to discern things such as "it will let me bury fianchettoed bishops too easily" an "it doesn't seem to care about pawn majorities in the middlegame" The deep fritz setup may get it, what, one extra ply? I doubt it will help. dave
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