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Subject: Re: Pre match conditions not fair

Author: Rolf Tueschen

Date: 17:29:10 10/10/02

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On October 10, 2002 at 20:01:46, Roy Eassa wrote:

>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.
>>
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>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.

Plus, he's not stupid enough to study Fritz for two years. Of course he has
Fritz like you and me but I'm sure that he never feared to lose.

For me the whole event with the oil sheikh is a nice "Wag the Dog"-like spin by
Frederic F. and the Brits around Keene. With a bit of reflection and
differentiation everybody could understand the hype. Kramnik alreadat achieved
what he wanted, he proved Fritz exremely stupid and now the rest is for the
sponsors and F.F.

You know, I love it. Fred lay for the whole game 4 in the background and then
when the GM had told him that it were a draw he recovered from his depression
and soon he invented the next spin!

Quote by heart:

"If this game will be a draw, the next game will be extremely important for
Kramnik, because, if he'll lose (!!) that game, then it will become extremely
dangerous for his nervous system..."

You get the drift. You can always define something terribly weak into a Wch
candidate! In CC that is possible. I would say it was the tradition over the
last decades. With the exception of Bob who is trying to calm the emotions from
time to time, without major success.

Actually I think for the hype in CC this site in Bahrain is really a brilliant
choice. The Land of 1000 & 1 Nights! Where you can see yourself grow about
thrice your original height. Just by the physical reflection by sand and water.
Sometimes you can see millions of people applauding you in the far distance. So
this is perhaps the only site on earth where idealism and materialism fall
together into one! What you are thinking becomes immediately real _and_ true.

Rolf Tueschen



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