Author: José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba
Date: 10:49:59 07/02/99
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On July 02, 1999 at 12:15:04, Paul Richards wrote: >Starting a new thread based on: > >On July 02, 1999 at 11:39:51, KarinsDad wrote: > >>It was a nice run by Topalov. And, of course he had help from Svidler who beat >>Fritz in round 12 and Morosewic who drew Fritz in round 13. With the exception >>of Polgar who seems to have an extremely difficult time even drawing against >>Fritz, it looks like the superGMs started getting Fritz' number (albeit a little >>too late). Svidler beat Fritz by allowing it as black to effectively play white >>with 1. a3 and surprisingly, playing an open game where he was able to push >>pawns and force Fritz to trade often (including Fritz trading down on the >>exchange of a rook for a knight). A very interesting game. > >This sort of thing begs the question of how strong the computer programs really >are against humans. A lot of success against the programs seems to depend not >so much on chess play but on use of special knowledge of the opponent, >specifically the knowledge that the opponent is a computer and therefore has >predictable strengths and weaknesses. This is the advantage of possessing >intelligence, but does it really show who plays better chess, or more accurately >does it really gauge how well the programs play? > >If a GM thought he were playing against a human I believe the program results >would be significantly higher than what they are now, even at long time >controls. It might be a bit underhanded to put together an event to test this, >so I don't think it will happen, but it would be interesting. When grandmasters play in high category tournaments, they know who are the opponents and make thorough opponent-specific preparations. I think all the top players take this anti-opponent preparation very seriously. I do not see why the computers should compete in different conditions. There are allegations that Clemes Allwermann played in an open tournament in Germany using Fritz. It would have been interesting to see him playing more tournaments using the same program (without being catched) and with the games being published, as are all the games between strong players. My guess is that after a few tournaments the anti-Allwermann preparation of the opponents would be extremely effective. José.
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