Author: Roy Eassa
Date: 14:46:20 10/08/02
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On October 08, 2002 at 13:33:40, Knut Bjørnar Wålberg wrote: >On October 08, 2002 at 13:24:51, Ed Panek wrote: > >> Well if Kramink stomps Fritz as he will, what does the future hold for rematch >>possibilities? Hopefully it wont include fritz and 1 year of practice. >> >> >> >>Ed > >Well, I think the agreement went a tad too far in the advantage of Kramnik. Yes >he should have access to the program and games played, but not all the way to >the final version. After all, if it had been a human championship, no one would >be able to "borrow" the opposing GM for months and ask what he would play in >every single situation! If the supply of newest versions had been cut at, say, 3 >months before the match, it would have been much fairer. > Don't forget: 1) DF's opening book is a complete stranger to Kramnik. He did not get that in advance. 2) The version of Fritz that he is playing has only been out a few weeks. 3) I don't think Kramnik had access to a PC anywhere near as fast as the one he is facing. >I also agree with everyone who has said that tactical "king of computers" >ability is not best the way to go. Maybe the qualification should be in the form >of scoring most in a series of matches versus GMs, not other computers. > >Knut Bjørnar Wålberg
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