Author: Mike S.
Date: 15:45:52 10/08/02
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On October 08, 2002 at 18:27:21, Otello Gnaramori wrote: >On October 08, 2002 at 17:50:50, Mike S. wrote: > >>>(I didn't realise before the match started, how risky it probably was to >>challenge Kramnik in that respect... also, being in the news worldwinde with >>draw-loss-loss-draw-loss etc. isn't the best advertisement neither. So ChessBase >>took a big risk in a commercial sense, too.) >> >>But it's not over yet. I tend to be too pessimistic sometimes. >Hi Mike, >What do you think about preparation , I mean the possibility of Kramnik to find >weak points in the program and possibly to make the machine follow a "quasi- >predetermined" line of game ? >We have just witnessed a couple of almost similar games...queenless middlegame >with the major pieces slowly disappearing from the board and a triumphal pawn >endgame against a disoriented Fritz. Yes, exchanging the qeens early seems to be one of the main strategies of Kramnik for this match, which isn't surprising because he did that against Kasparov too, with Black. Maybe he asked his seconds something like "Find me all kinds of (side-)variants with an early exchange of the queens." This would seem reasonable to me, since this is the most important anticomputer effect of his "Berlin Wall" strategy with black against Kasparov. They could have tested it with retail versions of the Fritz books, how likely it is that Fritz goes into that variants (the match book can't be too much different IMO). It looks now, that not only the Ruy Lopez is dangerous for Fritz in that respect, but probably many other openings too, unfortunately... Regards, Mike Scheidl >I think that people of Chessbase, but in general CC has still a lot of "room >for improvement" in endgame phase. > >w.b.r. >Otello
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