The Duel : Kramnik v Deep Fritz

[Donna Ferentes]

It's a Najdorf, which Kramnik never plays normally. (He tried it in 2004 and had a bad time with it.) With 6.Bc4, which is very much out of fashion.

 

[muser]

I'm following as best I can mate! Your commentary is more informative than my pointless and misunderstood ramblings could ever be.

Same here

 

[Donna Ferentes]

Black looks fine to me here but then again I often think that of my games when playing a computer....

 

[Loki]

I haven't been able to follow this as I would have loved to cos I've been busy sorting real world stuff (boo to real world stuff)

What I've gathered is that this is crunch time - Kram has to win the game today, or he's lost the match I think that's right? The "official" site is a bit crap.

 

[Donna Ferentes]

It's barely a site at all!

 

[Loki]

This is what Kramnik is playing...

Presentation not one of the Fritz team's strong points then

 

[souljacker]

Black looks fine to me here but then again I often think that of my games when playing a computer....

I agree, mainly because I can't see how White can do anything with his pawns. He's getting a bit hemmed in.

 

[Loki]

As I feared, it seems Fritz is running on Intel's latest Quadcore beast (four massively powerful processors in their own right, working closely together).

Deep Fritz will be running on a computer with four processors at WCC 2006. Since the program has been optimized for parallel processing, it will be able to respond quickly and strike hard at a tactical level. On this machine, Deep Fritz can compute around eight to ten million positions a second. That is three times faster than in Bahrain in 2002, the last time it faced off against Kramnik.

It's not much of a surprise Fritz is in the lead then.

(The next machine I build will most likely have this, assuming the price isn't too insane in the new year.)

 

[Donna Ferentes]

Kramnik sems to be doing well - you can't really accuse a machine of playing planlessly since they never play with a plan, but certainly the machine is not really getting a grip of this position. Beating it is another question, though.

 

[Donna Ferentes]

It's gone a bit passsive. Still, Kramnik has one advantage - the machine doesn't know it's playing for a draw!

 

[Loki]

It's gone a bit passsive. Still, Kramnik has one advantage - the machine doesn't know it's playing for a draw!

Hehe

Looks like quite a decent position for white for me, with the hint of an attack should things develop that way

 

[Loki]

26 minutes on Kramnik's clock... cutting it fine again

 

[Loki]

Well he's made the time control, but the game is lost, it's obvious now.

 

[Donna Ferentes]

Yeah, it's dead.

 

[Loki]

And so it was that a computer that looks more like a beaten up video recorder than its namesake, the collosal Deep Thought, smashed the world chess champion convincingly.

4-2 final result.

 

[Donna Ferentes]

Meanwhile, here's the Streatham and Brixton chess blog.