Author: Uri Blass
Date: 08:45:17 01/22/03
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On January 22, 2003 at 11:29:18, Les Fernandez wrote: >On January 22, 2003 at 05:12:52, Francesco Di Tolla wrote: > >>An important rule went unnoticed here. >> >>The program can use the tablebase, but the game is declared draw when the >>computer hits a tblbase draw! > >Rediculous!! Who in the world would agree to terms like that! With a few more >rules like this it won't even pay to play the match. What other things does the >Kasparov camp demand? Am I not mistaken that all this time Kasparov has had a >version of the software to gain insight into its prowess? You are wrong. Kasparov has only an old version and not the version that is going to play against him. I also believe that the rule does not change a lot. The probability to get tablebase position in 1 game is small and the probability to get draw tablebase position that kasparov does not know to play is even smaller. I guess that the last probability is less than 1/1000. > Although I feel >Kasparov should win the match with all these "extra" provisions one would have >to ask how can he lose!!!!. Losing the match is no problem. Kasparov only needs to do some mistakes that he usually does not do in games. Kramnik proved that it is easy to do it but did not do it enough to lose the match but only to draw. Uri
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