Author: Roy Eassa
Date: 09:08:24 10/27/02
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On October 27, 2002 at 01:30:09, Ingo Althofer wrote: >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outdated chess program running on fairly slow hardware (to avoid blunders)?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. > Fascinating piece of information! I did not know about this -- thanks for the info! >(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). > I look forward to that. Thanks again for great info! > >>[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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