Author: Joachim Rang
Date: 13:36:56 10/06/02
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On October 06, 2002 at 15:26:38, Rolf Tueschen wrote: >On October 06, 2002 at 13:45:32, Rex wrote: > >>Can someone explain this one or is Kramnik the only player to give a reason. >>Please dont give me this 8 CPU deep thought excuse again like the h4 move. >> >>Why Bf8 >> >>[D] r3k2r/1b1n1ppp/p3pn2/1pb5/8/1N2PN2/PP2BPPP/R1BR1K2 b kq - 0 1 > >My idea for that one. > >Queens are exchanged, Kramnik might have found such "moves", we would call >blunder in human chess, because FRITZ might think that from now on direct King >safety is less important. So loss of tempi should be less important. Hence FRITZ >can "fully concentrate" on the optimal positioning of the pieces. Castling comes >much later. > >Of course this is real nonsense and no human chess player, either GM or beginner >would play Bf8! > >I think that Kramnik showed a good example today of what will happen if the best >humans once tried to enter into real fighting chess mode. The almost primitive >saccing on g5 is far too average for a real artist. Chess has some thousands >more of such tricks. But it would be bad if the masters would tell them before >they all had their own 1-million dollar "match". > >BTW, the way I could understand the character of Vladimir, he will now be >content to hold 50% in the next 6 games. He has already demonstrated with >certainty that he's 100 times stronger than this ignorant chess program. >It was a deep deception for me to see how little hundreds of people on the Fritz >server could enjoy this sort of simple and artistically ingeniuos play by >Kramnik. This was a game which proved almost mathematically why humans are still >better than machines. And before chess couldn't be solved, such games with >different motifs will be reproduced. > >I'm sad that I can't say different here to the many computer chess friends. > >Rolf Tueschen I'm a computer chess friend and I'm glad that Kramnik won. I will be glad if Kramnik will win the whole match (but hopefully not 6:2). What would be our hobby, if the machines already played stronger than every human? A boring algorithm-catching which noone could understand...
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