Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 11:34:09 10/09/02
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On October 09, 2002 at 12:31:29, Roy Eassa wrote: >On October 09, 2002 at 12:07:38, Kurt Utzinger wrote: > >>On October 09, 2002 at 11:06:46, Chessfun wrote: >> >>>Point was; >>> >>>"The Fritz team has the consolation of having outplayed Kramnik in the opening >>>stages with the Scotch Opening" >>> >>>It never looked that way to me. >>> >>>Sarah. >> >>I fully agree. It's simply not true that Deep Fritz had outplayed Kramnik in the >>Scotch opening. >>Kurt > > >Right. But Fritz did apparently have a perfectly acceptable (approx. equal) >position until playing 19.a3?, after which Kramnik (amazingly!) thought Black >was winning. "equal" between two strong humans. But Fritz has an endgame problem, and that opening played right into the jaws of that problem. Kramnik knows what he is doing as he has had ample time to discover these "problems". And once you know that the program loses a bunch of "skill" when queens are removed, then suddenly you can make a few positional concessions to dump the queens, knowing that your opponent is going to make _worse_ positional concessions in a part of the game it doesn't understand very well (the endgame). The programs do well against other programs with these huge passed pawn scores and without knowing much about majorities, candidates, and the like. But _not_ against a top GM...
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