Author: ALI MIRAFZALI
Date: 11:40:25 10/03/02
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On October 03, 2002 at 14:25:45, David Hanley wrote: >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 I will make no predictions as to the outcome ....But it will not be easy People were making the same prediction before the 1997 Kasparov DeepBlue Match..........Most GM vs GM games are lost and won by tactical errors that the computers avoid very easily .As for him having the copy of the program look what happened to VanWely he had played supposedly hundreds of games with rebel and all he could do was to draw the Match and he is 2700 Elo not an average GM......
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