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

Author: Sandro Necchi

Date: 02:09:34 11/22/03

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On November 21, 2003 at 18:09:41, Peter Kappler wrote:

>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).

Hi,

>
>
>Mig,
>
>How about more open competitions for the right to face Kasparov?  For example,
>the World Computer Chess Championships are being held in Graz, Austria next
>week.  Winning this event is generally considered the highest honor in computer
>chess.  What if it also earned the winner a right to face Kasparov?

I would love so!!!

Ciao
Sandro

>
>The competition at these computer-chess tourneys is already fierce, but this
>would take it to a whole new level.  :)
>
>-Peter
>
>P.S.  Does Kasparov practice with any engines other than Fritz, Junior, and
>Shredder?



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