Press release

Coincidence Statistics of the moves of GM Kramnik with recommendations of the chess program Fritz 9

Elista, October 4, 2006

After very detailed analyze of all games of the match we would like to present to your attention coincidence statistics of the moves of GM Kramnik with recommendations of chess program Fritz 9.

First game: From 75 moves: After the 12th move of Topalov Ba6, a novelty, from 65 remaining moves – 41 moves match with the first line of Fritz 9 (63% of matches)

Second game From 63 moves: After 17th move, where the theory ends, from remaining 46 moves- 40 moves match with the first line of Fritz 9 (87 % of matches)

Third game From 38 moves: after 10th move, when the theory ends, from 46 remaining moves- 40 match with the first line of Fritz 9 (86 % of matches)

Forth game: From 54 moves: After 14th move, when the theory ends, from 40 remaining moves- 30 match with the first line of Fritz 9 (75% of matches)

Sixth game: From 31 moves: After 13th move, when the theory ends, from 18 remaining moves – 14 match with the first line of Fritz9. (78% of matches)

Thus, out of 5 games - 78 % of GM Kramnik’s moves match with the first line of Fritz9.

Sincerely Silvio Danailov

Mark Crowther comments:

I'm sorry but this is one of the most stupid press releases I've ever seen. These figures compare to what? Has anyone done any analysis of any other top players games to compare it with? With Capablanca? who I'm reliably informed used Fritz 1 in all his later games.

This is precisely why people need to pause for thought before accusing people of computer cheating, at the elite level there is no evidence at all for cheating but it will be the death of the game if this rubbish continues.