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Subject: Re: Fritz: a flop? Or abright future?

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 06:30:45 05/20/00

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On May 20, 2000 at 09:17:58, Wayne Lowrance wrote:

>On May 20, 2000 at 05:53:18, Francesco Di Tolla wrote:
>
>>Many were expecting to see Fritz have an easy win here, and hence should see
>>Frtiz result as a flop, I think this time it got a good score but not as good as
>>many did expect.
>>
>>I think this might help computerchess, now people know this "beast" is beatable,
>>so I hope/expect more invtations an more fun for us!
>>
>>After all the big mess was just big advertsiment!
>>
>>regards
>>Franz
>
>I was not suprised, really. It was predictable that some GM's were not going to
>play Fritz and as Dr Bob has said many times, many GM's know the correct way to
>beat a PC chess program, any program. Getting tired of this topic though.
>
>I thought Fritz played very well and shout three cheers.
>
>Wayne

I agree.  I think it played great.  Its final finish was probably inflated by
at least one point.  I suspect it would have lost one of the two games it got
for free, or at least drawn both...

But even several draws against GMs is not embarassing...



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