Author: Matthew Barnett
Date: 12:17:56 10/07/02
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On October 07, 2002 at 14:45:52, Uri Blass wrote: >On October 07, 2002 at 13:17:30, Matthew Barnett wrote: > >>I agree. There was still a little way to go for Kramnik. Given that Kramnik >>was way down on time (about 3 mins) compared to Fritz, I think this alone would >>have been a legitimate reason to play on. Your time trouble is something your >>opponent can use in their favour: it's part of the game. Otherwise, why have >>clocks? >> >>Bests >> >>Matthew >> > >I think that you underestimate kramnik if you think that he can blunder in >that pawn endgame. > >The only reason to continue is to convince some people >who do not understand it. > >Uri Hi Uri, I don't underestimate Kramnik at all but I think he still had a little way to go given the clock situation and that he was playing a computer which I assume is not 'aware' of its opponent's impending time problems. However, the DF team may well have been aware of this and I always find it disappointing when a human makes a decision for a computer as to when to draw or resign. If it's truly a man vs machine event then human interference, on behalf of the computer, should be kept to a bare minimum. Deep Fritz has resign settings of Early, Late and Never and it should have been up to DF to 'decide' when to resign, if it all!, and not the team. I don't think DF was allowed to resign on its own. Your point about convincing other people who do not understand the end position/plan is a valid one and I would go further to say that those watching would be more convinced if Kramnik had beaten DF without intervention. So my point, which I didn't make clear in my first post, is not to test whether Kramnik will blunder or not but to have the computer play against Kramnik with all its ignorance about clocks and when to resign etc and not have another human decide this. Humans should expect no mercy in respect of having to play out until checkmate or the 50 move rule kicks in if that's the way the program has been written! If DF did resign on its own then I will happily salute it! Best wishes Matthew
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