Author: Rolf Tueschen
Date: 16:23:32 10/20/02
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On October 20, 2002 at 16:06:33, Otello Gnaramori wrote: >On October 20, 2002 at 15:43:36, Otello Gnaramori wrote: > >>http://www.dailystarnews.com/200210/19/n2101904.htm#BODY12 >> >>In the above link I've found the following declaration: >>"A member of the Kramnik team said Thursday, "After studying the computer's game >>for over a year, it is almost as if we are being brainwashed by this programme." >> >>w.b.r. >>Otello >> >> >>p.s. >>There is also "Even if I am playing for free, it is the same, I want to win. I >>want to play good games. Winning is the most important thing to me," said >>Kramnik. > >http://www.sundayherald.com/28623 > >After the finale, Kramnik said he had found Fritz 'much stronger' than programs >he had played a year ago. 'It is not just strong in terms of calculations, which >is to be expected, but in terms of positional moves. It plays like a very strong >human. These are 'human moves'.' Excuse me if I add 3 points. 1) The statement of Kramnik is simply absolutely wrong! Let me explain. Kramnik is strong enough being capable of letting Fritz look good or bad. That is he lie (yes, I will stay to that term) in his statement. The first 4 games have proved that Kramnik could simply kill Fritz. The second half Kramnik played completely different chess and Fritz looked "good". So simple as that. 2) Why Kramnik played like he played and why did he talk like he talked? Look, if you got 1 million or 800000 dollars for such 8 little exhibition games you were simply incapable of being nasty to those who have made it possible that you've won in the lottery. So you play your chess but then you realise that it went too cruel, so you get it a bit slower. That is not cheating. That is unconsciously what you would do yourself too if you were Kramnik. It's a certain compassion for those chess amateurs from ChessBase. And all those average GM around. Kramnik is a nice guy, he already said that he doesn't want to kill the ego of the opponent. So what he did was simply being nice. And folks when did you get 800 000 dollars for 8 chess games? That is so unreal and that was it what Kramnik meant with the accurate site in Bahrain. It's like day-dreaming on a sunny day in summer. 3) That having said, let me point out what is ugly in such nonsense. It's the depressing effect of such bought exhibitions on your art. Sometimes you could see the genius play chess. But then to get it back to normal Kramnik played such a nonsense that we began to shout "cheat" and "intentional blundering". But Kramnik might have thought that people couldn't estimate his art anyway. He might ask himself if that was justified to spend all these years away from tournament chess and just in exhibitions. I think that that is the bad side of the whole hype. In a way he sold his art to the devil to get the money. Honestly I fear that Kramnik doesn't have the character to withstand the moneything. When he was 17 he was drunken in Berlin where life is so different to his own country. Now he has smelled the sweets of the money and it could well be that he will never be the same he was before. He's neither Fischer nor Kasparov. And if I had the choice I would prefer Fischer because he gave always full power and his genius, while Kasparov is too much occupied with his own higher meaning in the world. Kramnik will endlike Spassky. That is what I fear. But give me 1 million dollars and I say the opposite for a couple of days. :) Rolf Tueschen
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