Author: Roy Eassa
Date: 12:11:40 10/25/02
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On October 20, 2002 at 22:37:17, martin fierz wrote:
>On October 20, 2002 at 17:55:55, Bob Durrett wrote:
>
>>Why Fritz and Junior not among Top computers at ICC?
>>
>>I just looked at "best computers" at the Internet Chess Club [ICC] and noted
>>that the top blitz programs are NOT Fritz and Junior.
>>
>>{{Note: at ICC, "best" is a command.}}
>>
>>
>>Why is that? Maybe Kramnik was playing against the wrong engine?
>
>hmm, that is what a lot of people were saying after 4 games, but honestly i
>don't think there is any real difference between top engines in play vs humans.
>they will all "take the money and run" whenever a human blunders, which happens
>frequently :-)
>
I find your posts to be eerily similar to my thinking (except that I would begin
each sentence with a capital letter ;-) ).
The computer's role is to ruthlessly punish any blunder or excessive temptation
by the GM to play an unsound sac. I don't think it much matters which modern
commercial program or even what modern hardware (within reason) it's running on.
It will lose some games by being outplayed and it will win some games by human
blunders or temptations.
Even Chess Genius 1.0 on a 20 MHz 80386 would have taken the blundered piece in
the (probably) drawn position in game 5; it might require a Pentium 100 to
properly defend against the unsound sac (which Kramnik made in a winning
position) in the next game then accept the human's resignation in a (probably)
drawable position.
Of the 8 games, I think the play of Fritz was most impressive in a couple of the
draws. It might also have impressed in game 5 if Kramnik hadn't robbed it of
the chance by blundering a piece.
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