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Subject: Re: Fritz is doing as majority of chess experts was expecting...

Author: Otello Gnaramori

Date: 15:52:17 10/08/02

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On October 08, 2002 at 18:45:52, Mike S. wrote:

>>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


Thanks for your answer.
I have just pointed my browser at http://www.brainsinbahrain.com and in the
comments of the latest game is written:

[...]
"It was almost a shame to see the nice position Fritz had created out of the
opening spoil like date pudding in the Bahraini sun. The super-program knew it
was in trouble but didn't see any way out as Kramnik began to squeeze. The
middle of the board fell under the control of his rooks and he smoothly
transformed that into a winning pawn endgame. This pattern is very reminiscent
of the last game and highlights a well-known computer weakness in long-range
endgame planning"
[...]


w.b.r.
Otello



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