Author: Roy Eassa
Date: 15:35:38 10/08/02
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On October 08, 2002 at 17:46:20, Roy Eassa wrote: >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. > Ok, forget that last one. Looks like he did have access to the 8-CPU machine for a short while. > > >>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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