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Subject: Re: I will not be surprised, if Kasparov - Junior is cancelled entirely

Author: Terry McCracken

Date: 03:01:00 10/10/02

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On October 10, 2002 at 05:47:17, Sune Fischer wrote:

>On October 10, 2002 at 05:33:06, Uri Blass wrote:
>
>>On October 10, 2002 at 05:25:15, Sune Fischer wrote:
>>
>>>On October 10, 2002 at 04:27:52, Uri Blass wrote:
>>>
>>>>On October 10, 2002 at 01:40:11, Jouni Uski wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>For "obvious reason" ...
>>>>>
>>>>>Jouni
>>>>
>>>>If the "obvious reason" is a war against iraq
>>>>then it is not clear.
>>>>
>>>>I read claims that the war against iraq is supposed to be
>>>>only in January but I do not know.
>>>
>>>I don't think he was talking about the war, but simply because Junior isn't
>>>going to stand a chance.
>>>
>>>>I see no different reason to cancel that match.
>>>>The match kasparov -Junior is clearly more interesting
>>>>than Fritz-Kramnik
>>>>because kasparov does not get the program.
>>>
>>>I don't think it matters at all. The holes that are in these programs are not
>>>easily fixable, they are pretty much the same kind of errors - namely lack of
>>>deep positional understanding.
>>
>>No
>>
>>Not all the programs do the same errors.
>>
>>Tiger15 could avoid the positional errors of Fritz in the
>>last game.
>
>Can tiger see the blocked pawn position in game 1 is drawn?
>Does tiger know the endgame of game 2 was lost?
>
>Tiger is full of holes like fritz, but we won't get them exposed until we get a
>GM match (possibly Super GM).
>
>>Nobody has Junior8 except Amir Ban and Junior7 is old
>>(more than one year old) so we do not know exactly what holes
>>were fixed by Amir.
>
>Oh let's take make some wild and crazy guesses then: Junior8 will prefer not to
>have double pawns, Junior 8 will prefer connected passed pawns and Junior 8
>won't like pawn islands?
>All good rules, working fine 99% of the cases, but then there are the
>exceptions. Most players tries to steer the game into positions like that.
>Problem is Kasparov is so strong he can simply play his usual kind of game and
>will win anyway!
>
>>I expect kasparov to win but I believe that Junior
>>is going to score better relative to Fritz.
>
>If K-F ends 7.5-0.5 then I agree with you.
>
>-S.
>
>>Uri

I doubt that will happen. Won't the match end on game 6 if Kramnik win the next
two games?

Terry



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