Author: Uri Blass
Date: 00:35:15 01/24/03
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On January 24, 2003 at 02:41:22, Jorge Pichard wrote: >On January 24, 2003 at 02:00:00, Peter Skinner wrote: > >>On January 24, 2003 at 00:54:39, Nat Larson wrote: >> >>>Bareev is only playing against a pent 2.4 gig, why the overkill vs kramnick, >>>hell bareev is not that much weaker. >> >>No reason as to the overkill vs Kramnik, but I am guessing it was a marketing >>tactic for the computer supplier. >> >>Really I don't think Bareev is going to do much vs Hiarcs on a 2.4Ghz. I would >>suspect a draw, and wins for Hiarcs. >> >>All the hardware in the world would not matter as Kramnik showed in the first >>few games vs Fritz. >> >>Programs are still weak when it comes to positional chess, and Kramnik showed >>that. No hardware would have been able to save Fritz in those games. > > >That is correct as far as strategical positions are played against Deep Fritz or >Deep Junior, but when it comes to tactical positions the extra Ghz can make a >world of a difference. Deep Fritz would have done terribly if a mere Pentium >500 Mhz was used instead of the 8x 1000 Mhz system, since Kramnik would have >outplayed it tactically as well. > >Pichard I do not agree. I believe that the reason that Deep Fritz did not lose the match is not the hardware. I also believe that better hardware may help to get better positional decisions. Uri
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