Author: Jason Williamson
Date: 01:02:42 08/17/00
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On August 17, 2000 at 01:38:32, Uri Blass wrote: >On August 16, 2000 at 18:55:43, Marcus Kaestner wrote: > >>>>be sure that the improvement of the chessbase engines lay far behind rebel or >>>>shredder for example. >>> >>>Did you test all the chessbase engines to be sure about it? >>>Did chessbase send you their latest versions? >>> >> >>the answer is very easy: >>if they want to have a realistic chance, fritz has to gain a minimum improvement >>of 50 elo, junior has to gain a minimum of 100 elo. >> >>i know for sure that this is not the case. > >How do you know? >Did the programmers tell you that it is not the case? >> >>so chessbase will hardly be able to win the title. >> >>marcus > >Based on previous post of Amir Ban Frans Morsch is the most unrespected >programmer and amir also claimed that he is most likely going to release an >atomic bomb in his next version. > >Based on this information I will not be surprised if Fritz's version is 100 elo >better than Fritz6. > >I will be surprised if fritz's version is less than 50 elo better than Fritz6 >because of Amir's post. > >My guess for the first 3 places in order to win chessbase8 was: >1)Fritz >2)Shredder >3)Crafty > >I guess that all these programs are more than 50 elo better than fritz6 when in >the case of crafty the main reason is better hardware. > >I guess that Rebel,Tiger and Nimzo8 and maybe Junior are also better than >fritz6. > >Uri Don't just attribute Crafty's strength on hardware, Bob has done lots of work on improving Crafty's play at slower time controls. I would say Crafty is at least 100 points stronger today at slower stuff then 3 years ago, maybe closer to 200 points.
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