Author: martin fierz
Date: 15:31:23 10/09/02
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On October 09, 2002 at 16:34:36, Otello Gnaramori wrote: >On October 09, 2002 at 15:49:41, liam hearns wrote: > >>well is to be , Kramnick the destroyer,Kramnick the spoil sport,Kramnick the >>fox,or simply Kramnick the great? He is proving one thing and that is without >>its enormous database of book knowledge chess computers have not improved much >>over the years.Is it back to the drawing board chaps? > >Please don't be so pessimistic about CC...many progress have been made in recent >years (...and don't forget Deep Blue outcomes). >The achille's heel of Fritz ,where the arrow of Vladimir Kramnik is pointed to, >is the endgame long range planning: this is quite common also in other chess >programs apart from Fritz. >The cleverness of Kramnik is to steer the game in that direction and then >"magistrally" outplay Fritz in a quiet pawn endgame. >Programmers and CC Researchers still have "room for improvement" in this >difficult but fascinating discipline. i agree completely with you. at the moment, the computer-human match is decided by the battleground. if it's tactics, the computer wins. if it's strategy, the human wins. the battle is therefore mainly about steering the game into the territory one wants to play on, and in this respect, kramnik has succeeded very well in the first 3 games (there are still 5 games to go. i don't expect kramnik to continue with this pace, for more than one reason). this has to do with the fact that he is well prepared, but also with the fact that DF (or better, it's programmers) has shown a poor choice of its openings up to now IMO. not too surprising considering they don't have a GM to help them with that... perhaps in a few years thanks to advances in hard- and software the computers will also be able to play these quiet positions better, but for the time being, the best fix is to work on the book to avoid these positions. i expect junior to do much better in this respect, because they have a GM on board! aloha martin >w.b.r. >Otello
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