Author: Sally Weltrop
Date: 15:28:39 12/16/02
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On December 16, 2002 at 17:49:08, John Sidles wrote: >http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=649 > >Kramnik says: > >> There were not so many games where [Fritz] played strangely. >> In many games it was simply like playing a strong human >> Grandmaster, it was absolutely normal, absolutely human play. >> In game five Fritz played very well, better than any human. >> It seemed almost equal, but it managed to keeping putting >> on this pressure all the time, it kept finding these >> very precise moves, not giving me a chance to get away. >> ... >> You can say Fritz is 2800, but you cannot measure >> it by numbers really. It's very strong, it's very >> very strong. But it depends on many things, especially >> the opening. In some positions, if it gets its positions >> you can make a draw or you can lose, two choices; you >> can never win. In some positions its 3000. Maybe you >> can suffer and make a draw. 10 Kasparovs and 20 Anands >> wouldn't help you in these positions. >> >> So on the average you can say 2800 or a bit more, >> but it matters what you get. If you get a position >> like what I had in game five then no human can fight it. >> But if you get what I had in game two then you have >> a chance. It very much depends on the opening stage. > >I am old enough to remember CCC posts in which people >argued about whether computers can play at grandmaster >level (just three years ago!). What will things be like >another ten years? u beat me to it. I was going to post this statement. it says it's over 2800? What is Deep Blue's rating then? This machine was certainly much faster & stronger that Fritz OR was it? :.)
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