Author: KarinsDad
Date: 09:31:08 07/02/99
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On July 02, 1999 at 12:14:17, Albert Silver wrote: >On July 02, 1999 at 12:10:47, Marc Plum wrote: > >>I see that by winning the Frankfurt Masters event, Fritz has qualified for the >>Giants section next year. >> >>Which makes me wonder, will ChessBase be required to use the same software and >>hardware that were used this year, or will Fritz 7, say, be there? >> >>Marc > >It will be Fritz 7. If Polgar were to qualify would she be banned from learning >and improving over the course of the year? > > Albert Silver An interesting question. My take: Fritz 6 qualified, not Fritz 7. That means to me that any "learning" that Fritz 6 can do in the next year should be allowed (even this is questionable since the opening book is getting modified), but program changes should not be allowed. Otherwise, you are using different but similar software (i.e. not the software that qualified). Fritz 6 should also run on the same hardware. Polgar would not be able to improve HER hardware, so neither should Fritz. In today's world of better and faster, fairness will probably not come into play and the powers that be will most likely run Fritz 7. But to be totally fair, the superGMs will not get THAT much better (in fact, they will be getting older, so some of them may get slightly worse), so upgrading Fritz does seem unfair. Now, this does not mean that Fritz 7 on different hardware should not be allowed to compete in the Master's section. It just means that it should not be allowed to compete in the Giant's section since Fritz 7 did not qualify (unless of course Fritz 7 wins the Master's section next year in which case it could compete in the Giant's section in 2001). But the world does not revolve around fairness, but rather money. KarinsDad :)
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