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Subject: Re: I remember that DB was allowed to change params during the match...

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 13:28:28 10/09/02

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On October 09, 2002 at 14:38:06, stuart taylor wrote:

>On October 09, 2002 at 12:55:12, Otello Gnaramori wrote:
>
>>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.
>>
>>Thanks for your prompt answer...I definitely tends to agree with you.
>>
>>Regards,
>>Otello
>
>OK then, so there really is no comparrisson with the DB match at all. It was
>that which broke Kasparov too, and Kramnik has none of these problems, as well
>as the fact that I would gues he rates about 30-40 elo above Kasparov against
>computers.
>S.T.


Not much is known about the DB2 match, except that no changes were made between
rounds 1 and 2 while Kasparov was convinced there were.  But the rules allowed
it,
even if it wasn't done according to the DB team...



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