Author: Gregor Overney
Date: 14:15:36 10/19/02
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Is PC HW with commercially available SW playing at top grandmaster strength? - No. We just have too less data points to jump to that conclusion yet. Kramnik vs. Fritz is a very strange match. Having seen excellent play of Kramnik at the beginning of the match, it turned gradually into a disaster for Kramnik in the middle of it. He made a serious, but questionable blunder. I see a significant rate-loss in Kramnik's play during this match. It almost appears that someone might have told him to get great financial compensation for a draw against DF. The bets for Kramnik must have been really high. Is humanity able to construct a chess-playing machine that wins against top chess players? Yes. (See 1997 as an example.) Does such a system always win? No. Again, we have too less data points. One thing is certain, the games of 2002 (and 1997) show that the machines finally prevail in playing Chess. Technological advances (in SW and HW) will make it impossible for human players to win against chess computers in the future. But when will this happen? I think we are seeing the beginning of this evolution in Chess. If DF won against Kramnik, while he was really playing at the level of the world champion in Chess, I greatly had underestimated the playing strength of this program. Before this game, I was sure Kramnik will win. Gregor
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