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Kramnik draws first game against Deep Fritz
The Associated Press
Published: November 25, 2006
BONN, Germany: World chess champion Vladimir Kramnik scratched but failed to dent his computer opponent in the first game of the Man vs. Machine match, which ended in a draw after 47 moves Saturday.
Kramnik chose the quiet Catalan opening against Deep Fritz, one of the world’s top few chess programs. After the game, he conceded that “it doesn’t offer much advantage” but leads to the type of game that minimizes the computer’s calculating prowess.
Since humans excel at long-range planning in quiet positions and computers can out-calculate humans by a factor of at least a million in complex situations, the accepted wisdom is that humans should strive for quiet positions and exchange queens early.
The queens came off on move 17, and that was about when Kramnik began to get the upper hand.
Deep Fritz’s operator, Mathias Feist, shrugged that aside when asked about it later — “sometimes you cannot avoid exchanging queens.”
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