Author: Russell Reagan
Date: 06:30:33 10/10/02
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On October 09, 2002 at 12:45:42, Rex wrote: >Not fair! What about Fritz programmers reviewing Kramniks games and prepairing >DF for a match against him! Look...Unless Kramnik knows what opening DF is >playing then its not a problem. I dont have a problem with it just as Kramnik >should not have a problem with the programmers making major changes with the >program. I didnt have an issue with what IBM did either. Hey chess is chess. >White always goes first and you play within the rules. Follow those guide lines >and there should be no issue. Step up to the plate and play chess. Stop the >crying... The first thing that's wrong with what you say is that the Deep Fritz team isn't allowed to change anything about the program during the match. You agree that this should not be the case. So it's unfair already. As another poster pointed out, having a collection of games to analyze is completely different than having the actual opponent to test things out on. Think about it. If I gave you a 1,000 game collection of TSCP games, and you had 2 years to study them, then played an 8 game match against it, how well do you think you would do? Now what if I gave you the TSCP program that you'd be playing against, and gave you 2 years to try out all manner of attacks against it. Do you think you would have a better result in the latter scenario? Now imagine that you are a GM of the highest calibre, arguably the best player in the world, whose job it is to exploit the tiniest of mistakes, and you have 2 years to poke around with the program looking for those tiny mistakes. Of course it's no wonder Kramnik is dominating Fritz. It's not exactly fair. I think that to be more fair the Fritz team should have been able to change their program in any way they saw fit during the match, and also to have the machine play several other strong opponents behind closed doors to create a game collection of Fritz's games for GM Kramnik to analyze. These players wouldn't have to be world class. I'm sure there are boat loads of master level players who would gladly play a dozen games against Fritz for $1,000 (or whatever). That seems fair to me. Then both participants have the same knowledge of their opponent and have the same freedoms to change their play during the match. Russell
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