Author: Thorsten Czub
Date: 17:36:19 11/14/00
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On November 14, 2000 at 20:24:14, Uri Blass wrote: >This behaviour of 0.00 is also in other programs. i talk about middlegame. >If they want to tune for the ssdf list they need to tune for many opponents and >not only for gambittiger. > >This is not called tuning. >This is called improving. no. if they buy the opponent program just before THEY release their own stuff, and test it out and melt the games into their opening book i don't call this improving but cheating. you don't understand how the list works. its enough to melt games of the biggest enemy. the ssdf do not test playing strength but cheating-strength. >This is not so easy. >If this is the case Ed and christophe can have a secret book when they will give >the customers an upgrade some days after Fritz release their program. right. they can easily do so. will they. their only chance. >I also do not believe that they have killer lines in their opening book. its enough to melt in the won games opening lines. nobody knows. the only way to find out is by using same opening positions and then mirror it exchanging the colors. if the result is much different, the book is tuned. >There is no proof that playing from fixed positions give worse result for fritz >and it is possible to test it. right. you cannot prove in the moment. there is no new fritz. first program you could test would be shredder5. >For example it is possible to give chess programs the positions after 10 moves >of kasparov-kramnik games and I believe that no program prepared for it. right. you could test it. but it would need time. if time goes by, the customers have bought the ssdf-no.1 program so far and have not enough money for the others. >Yes,so there is a fair competition in all the world except maybe one >country(germany) take USA: is there a fair competition between microsoft and the other software houses ??? and how much of this unfair stuff comes to europe (if not the press would talk about it now) ?? and now turn it up: how much of the german market and the german computer chess magazine is the american reader knowing ???? >Uri
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