Author: martin fierz
Date: 14:25:30 10/08/02
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On October 08, 2002 at 14:07:17, Jorge Pichard wrote: >Knowing that Kramnik had plenty of practice against Deep Fritz and he probably >knows what DF would play after a certain opening, or at least has an idea of >most of Deep Fritz weakness by now. If the programs were swap after this game to >Deep Junior instead of DF. What would you say that the outcome would be. the same, most likely. note that kramnik is NOT playing the typical anti-computerchess that we all know, with blocked positions and king attacks. he is playing exactly the same chess he used to beat kasparov, who is the calculating monster among humans. kramnik is exploiting the weaknesses of deep fritz, but these are weaknesses of ALL computer programs (find me one program which prefers an active defence in game 2! e.g. Rc8 instead of Kd7 @ move 34). i have seen nothing in these games which suggests that it is prepared specifically for DF. kramnik is playing "his" openings, as usual (so the fritz book team is prepared for this), with some small twists to take the computer out of book. and into "boring" positions. this strategy would work against any computer. a few people (bob & co) have been saying time and again that the programs have huge weaknesses and all it takes is a strong player motivated enough to find them and exploit them. now we have the strongest player of all, motivated by a million bucks (or 400'000 + honor, since that is the difference between winning and losing this match), and so far, he is proving the point. of course, there are 5 more games, and fritz may still come back. also, even if fritz loses 2-6, it will have a performance of 2600. i really hope kramnik keeps the pressure up, because with a 2-point lead it would be very easy for him to just lean back and relax and start thinking about how to spend that 1'000'000 dollars! aloha martin
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