Author: Dirk Frickenschmidt
Date: 14:48:46 03/15/98
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Hi Thorsten, I make it short: 1) I accept that you have no convincing Fritz results on your machine. 2) I also accept that not only one, but quite a number of others meanwhile has more positive (some of them *much* more positive9 test results. 3) I belong to 2). a) I already had impressive results on a P133 with only 32Meg(engine games and tests) b) I had good results on two P75-machines run with double tournament time (to get P133 tournament games). After these games and tests I said: well, I think a Top5 program. c) I now even have even better results with engine games on my new P200MMx processor with meanwhile(!) 64 Meg. After these games and tests I say: well, maybe not quite as strong as the Swedish list suggests (you know I don't count doubles which occur quite often in owadays book learners etc...), but competing for rank 1 anyway! 4) I ask you: how many tournament games with Fritz5 do you have? 20? 30? 5) You know what follows: I do *not* accept that you only consider the small number of your *own* games (and they can't be too many - played manually besides all the other testing you do). So I think, to get a fair impression you *have* to consider more empiric material beside your own as long as you don't have very good reasons for the suspicion that not only a little bit, but a lot is wrong with how others test the same program. I see no reason for such a suspicion at the moment. So all in all I still think that *you* are the one with a prejudice in *this* case and that *not* the impression of others - based on the *huge* majority of played test games - is mislead. I frankly say that it is my personal impression that you don't like Fritz in a way that leads to prejudices from my view. I do not speak of prejudices in general, just in *this* case, for concrete reasons from our various talks about the matter. I know well you think it the other way round and think that I am biased. You should, however, *not* raise the false impression that Moritz or I are working for Chessbase. We both know Matthias well, and years ago I gave them an an experimaental opening book I had made for my own fun. Some years before I had some other contacts to people from Saitek, and many people here have had such kinds of contacts for reasons connected to their hobby. Taken alltogether the contacts of Moritz and me, they are still *much* smaller by far than the contacts you had to a *lot* of computer companies in the course of years, partly cooperating *close* with some of them and some programmers then. All this without me *ever* having raised the suspicion that *this* could play any role for your testing! I found this remark of yours quite inappropriate, since you know me for a long time and I don't remember a single case where I would have acted according to influences by commercial interests. We are talking about *personal* like and dislike and *personal* prejudices now, and that is something completely else. And I simply keep up my very personal impression from you that you have been *very* emotional and biased towards Fritz since a long time and especially towards Fritz5 recently. But I should not get more serious than necessary about this. It's only about a program. We disagree sharply this time, I am aware now of this message from your last post now, but time will come and definitely tell sooner or later who of us was right. Be shure that I will admit it *if* we find a big hair in the soup. So let's take it how it comes and talk again after falsifying or verifying all the present results in a calm way... Yours Dirk
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