Author: Joachim Rang
Date: 12:25:29 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 would agree, if humans could play every time at 100% of their abilities. I think the match will be close, although I think that Kramnik will win. But I expect at least one victory for Fritz. Against such a strong program with such a strong hardware one slight mistake can loose the game and I think Krmanik can't play eight games without the slightest mistake. Only to clear things up, Deep Fritz will use an opening book which is _unknown_ to Kramnik. Just so much for the theories of "repeating" games.
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