Author: Rolf Tueschen
Date: 13:23:50 10/14/02
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On October 14, 2002 at 15:07:55, Darren Rushton wrote: > >>>But Fritz is not in the same class as Kramnik. This is why the human player has >>>problems. >>> >>>Rolf Tueschen > >Your point that some sort of "conspiracy theory" exists here is an interesting >one. Certainly, if you believe anything Kasparov says about Kramnik, he has >certainly "taken his eye off the ball" and seems more concerned these days with >his own publicity. > >However, I can't convince myself why Kramnik would deliberately throw a game >away - surely, he would go out of his way to mash Fritz to pieces if only to >prove he was the best player in the World. > >I believe the day when a computer program can defeat the World Chess Champion in >a match is drawing ever nearer, and what we are seeing is concrete proof of >that. > >Darren Yes, fine, but that is exactly the debate! The chess side does surely doubt you opinion. And what I'm saying is simply this, such a blunder (Qc4) doesn't prove any superiority of the machine. But such a blunder may have a special message. Or in other words it is a message itself. And that was my point. I read the message as a form of disdain. Now, I'm by far no clairvoyant. I don't know Kramnik good enough. Darren, this is not because Kramnik has an axe to grind with Fritz, you know! The ChessBase team perhaps becomes a bit annoying him. For instance the 4th game. For me this was a win for Kramnik. Yes! You can't allow such crashs just so that the machine could empty its hash. Or whatever else they might have done. Do you know that this was all kosher? Rolf Tueschen
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