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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