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Subject: Re: Ok, after 3 game Kramnik 2,5 x 05,. But Kasparov...

Author: Roy Eassa

Date: 15:44:35 10/08/02

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On October 08, 2002 at 18:11:35, Günther Simon wrote:

>>>Unfair comparison
>>>Kramnik got the program before the match and kasparov did not.
>>>
>>>It is natural to suspect that kramnik planned the positional mistakes of Fritz
>>>beofore the games by trying many openings to find openings that Fritz plays bad
>>>positional moves.
>>
>>didn't you notice that kramnik is playing his usual openings? he doesnt look
>>like he has "tried many openings". he plays his normal systems and beats fritz
>>with them.
>>he would have done the same if he had practised with fritz 6 or with any other
>>strong computer program!
>>
>>aloha
>>  martin
>
>
>How do you know? Isnt it natural to test ones usual openings first and
>the DF reactions towards them? Therefore I dont see any contradiction
>to Uris statement - I am pretty sure that he did very well _know_ that
>DF will i.e. play this Bf8 move in the 2nd game. (BTW if you have F7
>at home you can see that this one also wants to play Bf8 in the same
>position...)
>Once again, why should he have planned with unfamiliar openings when
>he had one full year time to test his usual ones for DF inferior answers?
>
>Regards,
>Günther


Just don't forget that Kramnik did NOT have access to the opening book in
advance.  The version of Deep Fritz he was practicing against had a _different_
opening book.




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