Author: Rolf Tueschen
Date: 13:35:36 10/06/02
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On October 06, 2002 at 16:26:17, Ingo Althofer wrote: >In game 2 against program Fritz GM Kramnik has impressively shown how humans can >adopt to computer opponents and how helpful such flexibility is. I am firmly >convinced that Kramnik had this opening on the board in his preparation, and >that 9.Kf1 was fully intended to throw Fritz out of its book. And very likely >Kramnik had already seen Fritz' dubious moves 12...Bf8 and 13...b4 on the >monitor in his camp before the match. (Remember: Kramnik had the current Fritz >version already a long time for sparring purposes.) >By the way: Bf8 was not an isolated Fritz blunder but was also for instance on a >narrow rank 2 in the proposals of Hiarcs... > >Some spectators may now have the feeling that Kramnik's dry style makes the >match less interesting. But > >(i) The more dry Kramnik is acting now the more fireworks we will see from >Kasparov in December. In his hot temper Kasparov will try to demonstrate how >superior his chess is to that of Kramnik. So, have some patience. > >(ii) From my very personal view the games from Bahrain show the superiority of >human+computer teams over single computers, even if the human is only an amateur >player. No Elo-2000 player would have selected 12... Bf8 amongst a set of for >instance three similarily evaluated candidate moves; and most Elo-2000 players >would have prefered a candidate move like 13...Bd5 over the wrong pawn fixing >13...b4. > >Ingo Althofer.
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