Author: Karsten Bauermeister
Date: 17:31:44 02/24/98
Everytime the same thing...! When a program comes out and plays not the style Thorsten (Czub) likes, he asumed it in a very awful and unfair style. Of course there were people, they had results like in Sweden. Of course there were people, they told you, that Fritz 4 is stronger than the rating in Sweden. There were very interesting and thrustfuly opinions, which supposed, there were faults in playing thr first games of Fritz 4. The fact, that later the results were much better, than the first ones is a strong "Advice" to that. But the fact is, Thorsten always "do not believe" anyone, who has a different oppinion from yours. I never played tournament games with Fritz 5, because I have only one fast computer, but the games aginst my own person and other that I have seen, were always strong played - what Thorsten don't like is the style of playing. Perhaps some day the machines will show us, how to play chess. Perhaps the nice looking style of grandmaster chess is really bad compared to the (nearly) perfect style. What everyone should know about Thorstens way of testing, is to break up games, he doesn't like or he _*thinks*_ they are decided. What he doesn't like is not Fritz, but there are two "fast and dump" searchers leading the swedish list and Fritz is the kommercial product of ChessBase, the firm with the "high-price-politic". My opinion was and is: Fritz 5 is much stronger, than Fritz 4: More knowledge in every part of the game, faster, really deep looking etc. I ever believed that Fritz would have >2500 on the Pentium 200 MMX and I think, that it will fall a little bit. Most of the former leading programs (The King 2.0; Rebel 8; M-Chess Pro 5; Hiarcs 6) rise down some points some months later. I gratulate the guys (especially Frans Morsch) of ChessBase for there work and of course I use it for my own analysis. So were Matias Feist very surprised, that I used Fritz 5 in Paris to analyse a game of Comet! More, I don't believe the result in Sweden is the result of the advantage Fritz 5 is using bigger hash tables and power books. Karsten Bauermeister
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