Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 10:24:55 01/17/01
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On January 17, 2001 at 12:16:59, Tapio Huuhka wrote: >On January 16, 2001 at 14:53:53, Garry Evans wrote: > >>Hi >> >> Just wondering if anyone here can consistently beat Fritz, not counting those >>that take back moves, I am referring to those that play it, touch and move! >> So Far I have managed to beat Most programs at 40/2 except for Fritz, which >>seems impossible to break its Stoic Defences. The Harware I use is Athlon 750, >>on that machine no matter what i do, the thing always has some answer and kills >>me. By the way I am asking this question in the hope that someone might have a >>strategy I can try. > >Hello, > >if you want to beat the beast, why not just apply the FIDE laws of chess. It >should be that easy. I mean articles 12.2 and 12.7 (13.4 may be used, but then >you need an arbiter). Fritz uses hashtables and opening libraries, i.e. notes >and "sources of information" and that is against 12.2. Therefore it loses the >game according to 12.7. That might be the working political strategy. And humans use a brain. If anyone has an unfair advantage here, it is the humans. Since the tablebase files are part of the computer chess system, they are not outside information. But if you just want to declare them illegal, then do it yourself. If the fide laws of chess applied in the way you say that you do, they would not have allowed the matches that have taken place so far. Since they do allow the matches, it must not be illegal. >If you want to beat it by playing, just make it follow the rules by turning the >libraries and hashtables off. I haven't tried it, but it probably works. If not, >just get back to the political solution :) > >hth, Tapio
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