Kramnik vs. Deep Fritz.pdf

Kramnik vs.

Deep Fritz

by Karsten Müller

Russell Enterprises, Inc.

Milford, CT USA

Kramnik vs. Deep Fritz

by Karsten Müller

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Table of Contents

Introduction

Game One

Game Two

Game Three

Game Four

Game Five

Game Six

Game Seven

Game Eight

Introduction

The chess world had to wait quite a long time for revenge following Kasparov’s

loss against Deep Blue in New York 1997. Kramnik had learned from this match

and demanded to have a copy of the program two weeks in advance for his

preparation. ChessBase could only change the opening book and the size of the

hash tables during the match. Kramnik chose Germany’s highest rated player,

GM Christopher Lutz as his second, and headed off to the Gulf state Bahrein at

the beginning of October 2002.

At the start, the match had many similarities with Kramnik’s win over Kasparov

in the Braingames World Championship, London 2000. Kramnik drew easily

in the first round using the Berlin Wall. In the second game, he won because of

his fantastic endgame technique, as in his second game against Kasparov in

London. In the third game, he again managed to defeat the computer program

and with such ease that everyone expected Kramnik would coast to victory. But

in games 5 and 6 the computer showed its teeth. Its tactical abilities and tough-

ness brought it two straight victories and a psychological advantage for the

remaining two games. But Kramnik probably remembered Kasparov’s disas-

trous loss in the last round game against Deep Blue in New York 1997 and

decided to aim for two draws to at least draw the match. Now we will wait and

see if Kasparov manages to win against Deep Junior in Jerusalem, December

2002.

I want to thank ChessBase for allowing me to use my annotations from their

website (www.chessbase.com), and Hanon W. Russell and Mark C. Donlan for

preparing the e-book and PDF version.

GM Dr. Karsten Müller

Hamburg October 2002

Game One

Deep Fritz – Vladimir Kramnik (2807)

Brains in Bahrain (1), 04.10.2002 [C67]

Can Kramnik beat Deep Fritz and avenge Kasparov’s defeat against Deep Blue

in New York in 1997? The tension was increased by the postponement of this

match, but we can hope that Kramnik will strike back first and that Kasparov

will win his upcoming match against Deep Junior, so that the ball will be back

in the machines court.

A match against a machine is very different from a match against a human, so

Kramnik’s strategy will be to aim at closed, controlled positions that are diffi-

cult to play for a tactical-oriented computer program. But he could also use his

preparation from the World Championship match against Kasparov. The Berlin

wall is a good weapon, if you are: A) Kramnik and B) the opponent is a com-

puter program (it also worked very well in his match against Kasparov). See for

yourself.

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 Nf6

The Berlin Defense – also called the Berlin Wall. 3...a6 is the main line.

4.0-0 Nxe4 5.d4 Nd6 6.Bxc6 dxc6 7.dxe5 Nf5 8.Qxd8+ Kxd8

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Black’s bishop-pair compensates for his weakened pawn structure on the

queenside (the pure pawn ending would be lost!) and White’s advantage in

development. There is a heated debate at the moment as to whether Black’s

compensation is sufficient, but this is not the interesting question in this match.

It is more important how Fritz plays such positions, if it feels at home or not.

And so today Kramnik’s choice was correct, especially as I think that Kramnik

is satisfied with four draws as Black and will try for more with White. We will

soon find out.

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