Author: Roy Eassa
Date: 14:56:14 10/08/02
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On October 08, 2002 at 17:25:30, martin fierz wrote: >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 The tsunami of sanity from Hawaii!
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