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Subject: Re: Kasparov 's insight into his match with X3D Fritz

Author: Terry McCracken

Date: 01:00:41 11/21/03

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On November 21, 2003 at 03:26:41, Mig Greengard wrote:

>Had a long, fascinating session with Garry on Wednesday. He went over all the
>games and talked deep and wide about computer chess and his matches. It was all
>video-recorded for future display as a Playchess.com multimedia segment. Some of
>it is recapped in the article I just put up here:
>
>http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=1313
>
>More will go up in text later. From a chess perspective my suspicions during the
>game were confirmed when he said that he had analyzed just about all of game
>four a few years ago when looking at that QGA line. He mostly spent his time
>double-checking things to see if the Fritz team had found something nasty
>somewhere. That one of his former analysts, Kharlov, had played that game up to
>move 18 in 2001 was a tip-off. The position was already equal by that point.
>
>Probably of more interest to you all is Kasparov's interest in computer-computer
>games beyond simply preparing for a specific opponent. That part I recap in the
>article linked to above. I'm seeing him again before he leaves Sunday so if you
>have an interesting, (non-flame) question for him on comp chess I'll be happy to
>put it to him (and take credit for it myself of course).

Would you ask Kasparov whether he'll play a more serious match or matches
against machines, in conditions better suited to play, IE on a real chess board,
no gimmicks?

I know he tried his best and outplayed X3D Fritz in every game, but
unfortunately he didn't bring the score in his favour. That terrible blunder
in Game 2 which isn't worthy to his talent, tainted the results.

However, although it was a 2-2 tie, IMO with Game 3, Kasparov busted his
opponent up!:o)

I also feel in Game 4 Kasparov showed the computer, I can almost draw you at
will, with Black no less.

In a sense, he actually won!

One other question, how does Kasparov feel about all the rumours that the match
was fixed?

This must be somewhat of a turnoff for him as he works hard to win, not play out
some pre-arranged game ot games!

Regards,
 Terry



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