Author: Rolf Tueschen
Date: 09:22:41 10/15/02
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On October 15, 2002 at 11:54:22, Mark Young wrote: >Was Kramnik's preparation wasted by the Fritz team by tuning the Fritz opening >book to avoid queen trades even if it means a less then best move by theory? > >That seems what the Fritz team has done.... Yes, they are clever! 1) in case something could have been lost they have made sure that it can look into GM books (although that is against the FIDE rules) 2) in case something should be changed in the memory they are allowed to re-boot the machine 3) in case of technical endgames they are allowed to use endgame tables (against the FIDE laws) 4) and if all that doesn't help the organizers let Kramnik play the good uncle for some 20 children, so that he should ask himself - if that is fair, if he takes away the whole prize money - or if it could be better letting ChessBase win 400000 dollars which they had promised to put into the chess education of children in Germany. Now guess how Kramnik grew up when he was 10 years old? He feels a strong social responsibility... 5) Folks this is about a PR action. Even Bobby Fischer swam in a pool smiling into the cameras with a chess board on the water in 1972! So, don't be surprised next time, - Fritz played already in space! Duh! I would like to see Kasparov play DB3 a couple of Bullett games in between rounds of a boxing match in Vegas!! Of course no ties allowed! Winner takes it all, loser standing small... :) Rolf Tueschen
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