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Subject: Re: New SSDF-List - especially for Thorsten

Author: Thorsten Czub

Date: 15:11:43 02/28/98

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>Interesting. But why did you tell us your impressions NOW, after the new
>SSDF-List is published ?

Exactly. That is THE main reason i cannot repeat the choir of
congratulations that easy. Of course we have to congratulate frans. But
we don't have to forget that we have the program for a long time and
nobody registered this enormous strength. WHY ?

>In the past you never told us something about the strength of Fritz 5.
>To make it clear : I have nothing
>against Fritz 5 and I think, that it is a strong program. But naturally
>I was absolutly surprised like many others about the performance in the
>SSDF.

Thanks for your honest statement !



> Some people, for example Moritz Berger, told us it again and again
>in the past, that Fritz will receive a lot of benefit from hashtables
>for it `s strength. Seems that he`s right. But now I see to my surprise
>a lot of people, which now said : For me it`s clear, I always had this
>knowledge.

After 200 games anybody couraged to comment the politically correct
thing. :-)

>Thorsten believes something, you don`t believe something ....? Again :
>for me it`s a little
>bit suspect, that you `re claiming this, after the new list is
>published.
>People like Moritz claimed this for a long time, this has for me more
>credibility.

Right. Hail Moritz - the king of Fritz !!
President Moritz ! The super-borg !!


>The SSDF shouldn`t allow these special conditions and continue the
>testwork with their well known basic principles --> testing only
>programs in a commercially available form, to which every computer chess
>fan in the world has access.
>
>If not, then we `ll have two versions of programs in the future :
>
>1.) one for the public
>2.) one for the SSDF

Fide and PCA in computerchess !!!!!

Brilliant !
I completely agree in Peters words.



>
>In my view not a very good development.
>
>Let me know what you think !
>
>-Peter



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