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Subject: Re: Pre match conditions not fair

Author: Roy Eassa

Date: 17:01:46 10/10/02

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On October 10, 2002 at 09:30:33, Russell Reagan wrote:

>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.
>


Deep Fritz 7 has only been out for a few weeks, not 2 years.

And Kramnik did not have access to anywhere near this level of hardware until
just before the match.

Plus, he didn't have the opening book in advance at all.




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