Author: Ingo Althofer
Date: 22:30:09 10/26/02
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On October 26, 2002 at 16:06:21, Roy Eassa wrote: > >What would be the result of a match between a top GM and, say, Deep Fritz 7 >running on Bahrain-level hardware, if the top GM were able to consult an >outdated chess program running on fairly slow hardware (to avoid blunders)? (I) Kasparov proposed such a setting already in summer 1996. After the win of his first match against Deep Blue negotiations for the revenge started. Kasparov surprised IBM by a far-reaching proposal: "In the revenge, please allow me to use during the games a normal notebook (with at most 150 MHz in those days) with (a) an opening book (b) endgames data bases (c) some standard commercial chess program for tactical checks." IBM did not permit this sort of help. (II) In summer 2000 GM Rainer Knaak (Elo 2510) played an experimental match under tournament time rules. He had the help of Fritz6 on a notebook with 233 MHz (P-II). The opponents were other chess programs on a PC with 500 MHz. The results were Knaak + fritz vs. CHESSTIGER 3 -1 (+2,=2,-0) Knaak + fritz vs. SHREDDER5 2.5-1.5 (+2,=1,-1) There was a report on this experiment in the ICGA Journal. For the first half of 2003 another experiment of this type is in preparation at Jena University: A GM with Elo 2500+ together with help from a 233 MHz notebook shall play a series of active chess games against single programs on a faster PC (probably with 1533 MHz). >[Imagine Kramnik plus, say, Fritz 5.32 running on, say, a 400 MHz P-II versus >Deep Fritz 7 running on the Bahrain hardware or better if available. Assume >that the old program has no opening book and no tablebases -- it's just there to >sanity-check tactics to a moderate level.] Fritz 5.32 would be a good such helper because of its enormous tactical strength. Concretely, Kramnik would not have blundered in round 5, and very probable Fritz5.32 would have shown him that the attack in round 6 does not go through. Ingo Althofer.
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