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Subject: Re: Kasparov won the first game vs DeepBlue (rematch)..and then what?

Author: Omid David

Date: 16:41:24 10/06/02

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On October 06, 2002 at 18:43:19, Uri Blass wrote:

>On October 06, 2002 at 18:34:32, chris sergel wrote:
>
>>we know that.
>>This seems like a mis-match.
>>If Fritz plays against another Berlin, then for sure this is a mis-match.
>>Some of the moves played by Fritz were so weak.  How could Fritz play such moves
>>with 8 processors?  Frankly I think that Tiger or Hiarcs might have given
>>Kramnik a better contest.
>
>I do not think that fritz played so bad.
>I also do not think that Tiger or Hiarcs could do better when Kramnik gets the
>program before the game.
>
>They also do stupid mistakes that kramnik may take adantage of them.

Just an example: It seems that Fritz's worst mistake was Bf8. Testing that
position on other engines, most of them also consider Bf8 to be a good move,
putting it as their second best, or third best options.


>It seems that some people expect too much from Fritz.
>
>I think that 25% against kramnik is an excellent result for Fritz when kramnik
>gets the machine before the game.
>
>Fritz in the Israeli league could not even get a performance of 2500 and
>I suspect that the opponents did less preperation than kramnik(inspite of the
>fact that the teams could choose the opponent to play against the computer).
>
>
>Fritz did not use more than one processor in the Israeli league but more
>processors+better software can give at most 100-200 elo and the preperation of
>kramnik is reducing it to 0-100 elo.
>
>It means that performance of 2600 against kramnik is excellent for Fritz
>
>Uri



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