Author: Chessfun
Date: 18:35:15 03/11/01
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On March 11, 2001 at 20:34:03, Christophe Theron wrote: >On March 11, 2001 at 19:06:45, Fernando Villegas wrote: > >>The original F6 version was a non-original way to cope the market before >>competitors could do it. We have seen that once and again. In marketing business >>that practice is called "to deliver a flanker". >>Fernando > > >That's an explanation, but the very short delay between the release of Fritz6 >and Fritz6a is still a mystery. There was such a difference between the two, >they could not ignore that a much improved version was about to be ready. Were >they in such a hurry to release something that they could not wait 3 weeks? As >far as I remember the product could have been delayed a little bit... My memory may be wrong but it was released just prior to christmas. It must be remembered that the great interface with is now Fritz 6, Nimzo 8, Junior 6 and Deep Fritz came from this release, and IMO this was a significant improvement over Fritz 5.32 interface. As far as the engine itself, it was trying to be better than Fritz 5.32 which even to this date is rated 5th by the SSDF still above recently released programs. IMO the original eng which Chessbase let you keep and called Fritz6Old it is about equal with Fritz 5.32 though that's naturally debatable. Sarah.
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