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Subject: Re: Tiger makes Fritz better and better!!

Author: Alvaro Rodriguez

Date: 13:27:56 11/14/00

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On November 14, 2000 at 14:35:40, Mogens Larsen wrote:

>On November 14, 2000 at 14:17:27, Enrique Irazoqui wrote:
>
>>I have and like Century 3, Gambit and Tiger, and I also like Deep Fritz and
>>Shredder 4.x and others. And-And-And. Why should it be and/or? Why is it
>>necessary for some to shoot at other programs in order to praise the oh so great
>>chosen one?
>
>Your viewpoint is very consistant with the one that I have on this subject.
>There's a lot of enjoyable programs, whether they be strong, weak, commercial or
>free, available for the open minded. Fixating your belief and devotion to a
>single program and proclaim it to be the chosen one is a very narrow minded
>approach IMHO. There's more than one program for everyone's taste if one care to
>look.

I partly agree with you that we should enjoy the programs we have and don´t
devote much time into chosing the number 1, but that´s human nature. Just look
at all sports, World Championship in Soccer(Futbol), Icehockey, Basketball etc..
Olympiads, National championships etc.. Everything to get that number one
team(in this case program). The problem is that almost everybody "accepts" the
outcome of a Worldchampionship in, let say, soccer, but not in chess. There are
many reasons obviously.

Alvaro
>
>>As for Fritz, doubting its competence either in its GUI or in its ability to
>>play strong chess is, in my opinion, on the verge of the grotesque. For other
>>opinions, one could check Anand's, for instance, who has been quite explicit.
>
>What did Anand say about Fritz?
>
>Mogens.



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