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Subject: Re: Here we go again... :)

Author: Peter Skinner

Date: 16:00:43 06/29/03

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On June 29, 2003 at 18:49:47, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:

>You just ask fritz dudes of course. No wonder at playchess. that's the fritz
>server AFAIK.
>
>That program is so outdated technical seen that it still more or less fits in
>the L1 cache, nowadays called trace cache.

For an outdated program, it still does very well.

>Of course the marketing department never told you fritz doesn't know the diff
>between a bishop and a knight. Perhaps you as USER should demand that it knows
>what a strong bishop is!

Doesn't know the difference between a knight and a bishop? So I guess all the
options for the engine such as "value computer bishop" and "value opponent
bishop" would mean what? Just useless programming time?
>
>Frans on the other hand is really outdated busy. Half his life he is just
>porting his code to a new assembly language and a new processor. No time to
>improve its knowledge!

I believe Fritz 8 is better than Fritz 7. So if not for new knowledge, then what
could it be? It just kicks over material instead of knowing to kick it over?

As usual Vincent, just allot of hand waving and nearly no real true facts.

Peter.



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