Author: Terry McCracken
Date: 11:52:43 10/09/02
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On October 09, 2002 at 12:50:22, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On October 09, 2002 at 12:46:42, Otello Gnaramori wrote: > >>...the question is if Fritz team is allowed to make the same changing of the >>params of the program to tune it better against the Human Champion strategy, or >>at least to make Fritz to not repeat the same moves each time... >> >>w.b.r. >>Otello > > >I think the pre-match agreement prevents this, which is a pretty stupid >stipulation IMHO. >The human can study a game and change his strategy for the next, but the >computer cannot? > >The agreement is really a joke, IMHO. Do you think it would really make that much difference, considering how Kramnik lures it out of book early and then proceeds with his strategy to exchange Queens, to exploit endgame weaknesses all programmes suffer from? If you change parameters for the programme to hold it's Queen, for example, it may be a serious mistake, allowing Kramnik a strong or even winning advantage. I think we can't compare changing parameters with Fritz, a commercial programme, on an 8 CPU machine to that of Deep Blue a supercomputer, which has tremendous flexibility. I just don't believe there is room for serious improvement in this case. IOW it may make little difference or worse, causing Fritz to go down in flames! IMO Fritz is playing well and fighting well, considering it is drawn into the area of the game all programmes struggle with. Terry
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