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Subject: Re: Anyone tested the Fritz6Demo at EIDOS? (no text)

Author: Shep

Date: 04:39:13 12/15/99

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On December 14, 1999 at 07:36:55, Bert Seifriz wrote:

>Do you think Chessbase is so stupid as to put the
>real engine in it?

Who knows? Remember Rebel Decade 2 (the one with the Rebel 9 engine in it)?

For me, there are two possibilities:
Either they included an older Fritz engine (like 3.0 or 4.0), or they included
the real thing. Using a dumbed-down F6 would make no sense, would be easier to
use an older engine if they just wanted to show off the interface and the
general strength of Fritz.

Besides, never underestimate a programmer's ability to commit "silly" mistakes!
I have seen experts with $100,000/year salaries leaving their databases wide
open to access by anyone, or programs with huuuge holes in their copy protection
etc.
It's not totally impossible that no-one at Chessbase thought "wait, what if
someone uses the engine in another Fritz GUI?"...

Maybe someone owning both the demo and the commercial version can just compare
the engines' results on some test suite positions (given the same hash, of
course), that'll clear up all the speculation.

---
Shep



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