Author: Terry Ripple
Date: 04:01:34 10/08/02
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On October 07, 2002 at 10:09:14, Ed Panek wrote:
>GM commentator Nigel Short was
>critical of the Fritz Team's decision to resign. "At least for the thousands of
>chess fans out there who will see this game and not understand why black
>resigned," he said. "There are several long variations for white to calculate,
>many choices to make, it's not that simple. Black should have played on for
>at least 10 more moves."
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>
> I agree. I dont think that just because Fritz evaluations drops very low that
>Fritz should resign. If the Strentgh of the computer is its ability to navigate
>long lines and make no tactical mistakes, while it takes much more work for a
>human to do this, and the eval is thinking according to perfect play...why not
>make them sweat it out.
>
>Chess is war. This is the beginning of the match. Doesnt long term implications
>of stress come into play? And if it irritates Kramnik...even better.
>
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>Ed
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My friend left the game run on CM 8000 with the program playing itself. He
claims that this game ended in a draw, but then he was only allowing it to think
for 30 seconds per move and was only using a 633Mhz Celeron processor! Those
kind of conditions could be the very reason for this result.
Regards,
Terry
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