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Subject: Re: Propaganda machine in full action - They are really admitting defeat

Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto

Date: 16:14:34 07/24/05

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On July 24, 2005 at 19:00:14, Uri Blass wrote:

>On July 24, 2005 at 07:19:51, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:
>
>>On July 24, 2005 at 06:15:54, George Tsavdaris wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>http://www.chesscafe.com/mig/mig.htm
>>
>>The strongest program (Shredder) is no longer sold by ChessBase --> time to put
>>the propaganda machine in action.
>>
>>So, now, beating other programs is not important anymore and if Fritz gets
>>clobbered by an 180k free program this is because it's 'smarter'! It's because
>>it has so much 'knowledge'!
>>
>>The new Fritz is not or almost not stronger than the old one where you payed
>>money for? No really, you can 'feel' it's playing more 'humanlike' instead!
>>
>>Also handy that the claim of being stronger against humans is almost impossible
>>to objectively verify.
>>
>>The really sickening thing is that people will eat this ChessBase propaganda by
>>the boatloads and report is as facts.
>>
>>--
>>GCP
>
>I think that you missed the following paragraph when they claim that Fritz does
>well against other programs and Methias Feist was sure that more knowledge would
>also make it strong against other programs:

I didn't miss that paragraph, and it does nothing to contradict the point I
made.

--
GCP



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