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Subject: Re: open letter against Fritz5

Author: Christophe Theron

Date: 22:19:03 04/16/98

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On April 15, 1998 at 21:21:12, Fernando Villegas wrote:

>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

Well... I would really love to be able to produce something nearly equal
to Lang's old stuff. :)

Anyway, I'm looking forward to discovering his new creature. Really.


    Christophe



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