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Subject: Re: open letter against Fritz5

Author: Fernando Villegas

Date: 18:21:12 04/15/98

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On April 15, 1998 at 16:15:15, Peter Hartman wrote:

>i personally do not understand this discussion about fritz.
>1)i think, it is also not fair to give all these computer
>programm such huge lists of openings (created by man), each computer
>should create its own list by "try and error".
>2)huge hash tables used by fritz, so what, fritz needs ram for thinking
>  ram is nowadays "cheap", everybody can plug in some Megs more in his
>computer
>3)open letter, i cannot understand this letter, why. one of these
>  writers are R.Lang, Chess programm of genius, i think, genius
>  was not reprogrammed or redesigned in the last years.
>  new desktop, new parameter ok, but i by myself was disappointed
>  to pay good money for an update with nearly no effect on the
>  threnght of these programm call genius. This is also making
>  money, Mr. Lang....


I have been told that lang is preparing and very near completion of a
new Genius running this time at real 32 bits. I bet that this time he
will launch something great in the old good style of his. Or not? Maybe
chess programmers, as all people, has a limited amount of new ideas and
sooner or later they just refitsd onece and again the same stuff. We'll
see very soon
F



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