Author: John Warfield
Date: 23:45:39 01/15/00
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On January 16, 2000 at 01:10:59, Charles Unruh wrote: > I in an earlier post said that Kasparov stating that he wouldn't play in the >Siemens Nixdorf Giants tournament was "B.S" , after thought though, i have come >to the conclusion that he is probably right! This because We here all(except a >few holdouts) know from experience that a program such as Rebel is as strong as >a GM(weak 2500) at 40/2 running on a mere 600 Mhz machine. In this case though >Fritz6(stronger than Rebel IMHO(and when you beat Rebel 15 to 5 as in Enriques >tournament, i don't want to hear crap about being better against humans, it's >not) will be running on a SUPER fast siemens primenergy server which in essence >will make it play like a rebel(probably stronger) at 40/2 even though the time >control will be only game in 25. So programs on fast hardware can still play at >40/2 strength even though the TC is but game in 25(humans can't hardly do this). > > Secondly Even if Kasparov managed to beat or draw his fritz match, Fritz could >go on to have better results against the competition than he does, which could >result in tons of advertising which says "Fritz finished ahead of world champion > Gary Kasparov in a tournament!" This besides pissing him off, would possibly >hurt his endorsements, and chances of garnering sponsorship for his match with >Anand. Solution might be though, to just go ahead and increase the tournament >time control to say game in 2hrs Kasp would have no fear then, as he knows that >both he and the competition would fair well against fritz. I'd prefer that TC >anyway :). > > Problem is though, i don't know how the German chess federation is going to >deal with this, because the Sponsor Siemens wants to get advertisement out of >fritz running on their Hardware! I actually wish there was some way to sue him >and force him to play(I hope they got him locked into some kind of contract). >Because regardless i still want him to play :). Well wasn't it kasparov who said in a recent interview about frankfurt that annand beat fritz6 and he thinks that a computer would never win in "our event" It appears just as in the deepblue matter his mouth is bigger than his heart.
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