Author: Kip Carvalho
Date: 10:53:17 10/09/02
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I for one am against the way the match was setup. Kramnik was at an advantage by being able to study DF where DF team wasn't given any compensation such as being able to make adjustments(car races, soccer, etc have the ability to recover a loss). Maybe future games will not change and GMs will be allowed to study the application. The PC doesn't study a book of GMs. Perhaps future chess programs will have a method to keep track of games for a given opponent. Let the program run for the night working out trees to avoid the previous mistake. This way the program will not fall for the same trap and will have a huge hashe tables for specific players. At least some mechanism for adjustment but this will probably take time to work out the coding details. On October 09, 2002 at 12:32:34, Geo Disher wrote: >I for one believe that the pendulum has swung to far the other way when it comes >to the match preparation. I don’t understand why people think its fair for a >person to get the exact program that they will be playing before the match and >keep programmers from making changes during the match. > >I think it would be fairer to both sides if the program had to play a hundred >standard games against GMs before the match so that Kramnik could use those >games to since how the program played. I don’t think programs change that much >more than good chess players do in a given amount of time. Just pay the GMs >$100 win/$25 loss/game and let them play on ICC to give the world champion some >games to look at. > >Also why not let the programmers change the code during the match. People >change tactics during a match (ie they may decide to play a closed game vs open >if they find their opponent is week in those types of positions) so why not let >the programmers change the program. They are not going to do a lot of changes >because they could easily break something. > >Now all that being said I still think Kramnik would win this match against Fritz >convincingly. I just want more fairness for future matches. Side note: It sure >would have been nice to see Kramnik or Kasparov play Deep Blue under the >abovementioned conditions.
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