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Subject: Re: Great Result for Fritz and puts to rest some questions.

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 10:34:24 10/19/02

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On October 19, 2002 at 13:28:13, martin fierz wrote:

>On October 19, 2002 at 11:56:33, Russell Reagan wrote:
>
>>On October 19, 2002 at 11:23:34, Mark Young wrote:
>>
>>>The match has put to rest some questions, or maybe not!
>>                                           ^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>>1.	Do PC programs play at a GM Level? – Clearly Yes.
>>
>>This hasn't been an unanswered question for some time now.
>>
>>>2.	Can PC programs win against a well prepared and motivated Grand Master? –
>>>Yes.
>>
>>What evidence do you have that Kramnik was motivated?
>>
>>>4.	Was Deep Blue 1997 was much stronger then Deep Fritz and other PC programs? -
>>>No.
>>
>>Don't even start this again. The only thing that is clear about this is that
>>it's not clear.
>>
>>>5.	Can a PC program compete with the worlds best chess players even when it is
>>>for sale to the public and everyone has a chance to play against the program? –
>>>Yes.
>>
>>Same as #1
>>
>>>8.	Will it take another 10 years before anyone can have a computer that plays as
>>>well as Deep Blue? No.
>>
>>Stop making definitive statements about Deep Blue vs. PC chess programs please.
>>You, like everyone else, cannot address this subject definitively.
>>
>>Russell
>
>re points 1 & 5: mark could/should have made the statement stronger. it's true
>that the question "can comps play at GM level" has been answered before. but GM
>level and kramnik-level are two very different pairs of shoes! the last GM-fritz
>match was huebner vs fritz, tied at 3-3, and although huebner is a strong player
>of course he is no kramnik...
>
>aloha
>  martin

Yes but Fritz got better relative to that match in software and hardware.

Uri



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