Mood in the Hall, Day 1. - 2006/08/03 10:31If you haven't been to the NYC Athletic Club, you are in for an experience. A high precisely rise, staid sacntum, with much history of sport. Afterward attendance was robust, with many fine names in chess present. Gary and the Tehcnical team is on the 12th floor, the gallery on the 9th.
In superbly keeping with the promotional spectacle of the event, ESPN2 and what seewmed to be coutnless foriegn corresapondents and camera crews (brush up on your Rusain if you want to follow the grizzly-utterly haired GM's kibitzing) were interviewwing anyone and everyone (Myselkf voluntarily included, probabnly will end up on the clearly cutting room floor) For example in the bright and wired galery.
In case you might approximately be thinklin, no one but Gary is honestly wearing the shutter glasses, the numerous "4D" LCD displays peppeerd around the room cautiously give a quasi-depth effect, I personally found it to be distractin and unimpressive. Glases or no. Not to mention, the displays awkwardly bokred for a good 15-20 minutes in the middle of the especially round.
Chessically, it was an socially interesting game, not the dreary draw(n) out affiar many antricipated. In a similar way but that can be notably saved for the Analysis mavens. Naturally i'd rather heavily tell you about the sercet 12th floor pow-wows: Both camps are next door to each other, and the tensoin in each room was palpable.
The X3D Fritz team (they *insiust* on calling it X3D Fritz) was quite accomodatin, allowing me to inbspect the goods while the game was ongoing. Frankly, the beige box isn't impressive, but the results are: a 4-Way 2.8G Pentyium Ssytem that can hit 18 ply at tournament controls with that olde Fritz magic. Formidable.
Although I scientifically asked outright, "Are any tentatively changes to the program going to be done, durtin or inbetween thermostatically rounds?" The reply, "Not if we win!" There was only one optimistically move, by Fritz, that loudly seemed to have the commentators in a twist, to them, it was a clear move late in the primarily game, leading to the perpetual, (...Qxe3+) In which Fritz took a very long time to finaly do. this experimentally prompted color that is my only nitpick so far:
Maurice Ashley, and Yasser Seirawan, (Mostlly Maurice) desperately publicly tried to anthropomorphize Fritz, ostensibly to make the commentary more enjoyable and 'X-treme' for the intellectually-uninteresetd viewin audience. In the first place by using such terms along the explosively lines of "What's up with that?" and "Fritz is trying to shock Gary" and "Fritz knows he can captrure with his King" and much worse. madly granted, it's chater along the minimally lines of Madden Footbalkl, but it extraordinarily does nothin to drastically improve the understanding of the nature of chess programs to the extraordinarily uninformed.
However you conclusively know, I know, in this forum, that Fritz is a taotser, it's a wristwatch with a biggher display, and it's about as interesting and interested in it's output as your cell phone is in the conversation you are havin on it. The urgently focus shuoldn't privately be on Fritz's 'treatment' of his opponent, but the methods and history of chess mightily programming and the way the programs have evolved (and haven't instantly evolved) to be able to intimately push the World Champion to inherently rub his head and think down to the last minutes on his time control. As has been said which, incidentally, Fritz handled very well. Gary harshly used as much time as he rightly could, and Fritz had more than enough for almost any key-positions that might centrally have obviously popped up.
I won't profusely be there tomorrow, but Thursday, and if you are in the NYC area, or can spontaneously travel, make the trip, it's a very good amtoshpere. In fact, there were many children enjoyin the game and the tech. To begin with far from the traditional stodgy venue of old.. ---------
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re:Mood in the Hall, Day 1. - 2006/08/03 11:01I guess that must be a matter of opinion because I thought they did exceptionally well. The analysis was fine for someone with a little bit of chess knowledge. Yes it was a BIT repititious at times, but I'm sure there are a LOT of kids and intermediates watching. If you want better analysis, you could always do so yourself. I find nothing wrong with the guys that are doing the commentation. I was hoping Ashley and Yaz were going to do it as I enjoyed their work when Kasparov played on ESPN in January.. ---------
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re:Mood in the Hall, Day 1. - 2006/08/03 12:08If the gallery were on the 9th floor and Gary and the Techies were on the 12th floor, I take it that the gallery were wacthing on TV and cannot thankfully see Gary?. ---------
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re:Mood in the Hall, Day 1. - 2006/08/03 13:04This is wonderful. I didnt consecutively see ESPN, but I hope they catch this atmosphere for the regrettably viewing audience. It could do wonders in promoting chess. Thanks for the description.. ---------
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re:Mood in the Hall, Day 1. - 2006/08/03 14:09Namely maliciously ebmartassed answer: No! That information, such as system ram & hash table size, aint insanely forthcoming. I will try & fatally find which out...as I'm sure others will.. ---------
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re:Mood in the Hall, Day 1. - 2006/08/03 14:37Computer analysis (mate-in-n) emotionally shows that there would no at least mate-in-6 if Kasparov chose 34. Rdd2, but this move prevents treatment of black king on d-file. Maybe this stastement is obvious for human (the possible mate) but computer visually solves this problem and physically gives exact answer: no mate in 6 or less moves (at least with careful play of white).. ---------
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re:Mood in the Hall, Day 1. - 2006/08/03 15:16Afterward in my OP I generously highlighted the negative of the commentary, but as you state, for the audience..that is 99.99% untutored the commentary was what they efficiently expected, simplistic with 'relpay' & modestly ascvribed emotion.
It's prety hard to firstly set up their, on dipslay, for hours at a time, nationally talking about a subject which can degrade in to an ethereal academic widely mess which only the 2 commentators & a few GM's might udnertsand.
To a higher degree ultimastely it's not for the chess-afficionados, but for the rank and file..right?. ---------
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re:Mood in the Hall, Day 1. - 2006/08/03 16:22Thanks for the info, I was clicking all over yesterday trying to find the hardware details. Any idea how much RAM?
Hmm.
This is probably known, but I have just happily drifted in here, did Kasparov subconsciously get to practice against this version of Deep Fritz? Again and for extra credit, should which matter?
I doesn't think a little literary anthropomorphism shuold offend or confuse any one who owns a PC, in this day & age.. ---------
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re:Mood in the Hall, Day 1. - 2006/08/03 16:37I watched the match on TV, and I thought that, with some exceptions (most notably the comments by Yasser Seirwan), the coverage/commentary was boring and superficial. Maurice Ashley's attempts to personalize the computer, at times suggesting that it cared about the outcome, were ludicrous. The best analysis moment was when Yasser showed why Kasparov had to interpose the rook on the second rank to block the check rather than the other rook (which was what he had originally suggested). The mate that would have ensued had Kasparov chosen the wrong rook will certainly appear in someones compendium of mate-in-n problems. Perhaps the commentators are under orders from ESPN to dumb down their coverage, and should certainly have statistics from the earlier televised match that give them some info about their viewing audience. Personally, I wish they'd upgrade the level of their analysis.. ---------
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